Sioux CountySXK
At an airfield/1.8 mi away/1,414 ft/99 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Maurice until 8 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Maurice is 46° and overcast at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 39°. The dew point is 39°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 16 mph, gusting to 30 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 41° by 8 AM, under cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 51°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 25 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 30°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The Orionids meteor shower is active, peaking around Oct 21: at its peak, up to about 20 meteors an hour can be seen from a dark site. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 11 hours 5 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Maurice, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 18, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Sioux City (IA), 32 miles off.
Yesterday measured 14, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.76 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 3 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Maurice, IowaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Maurice, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Sioux CountySXK
At an airfield/1.8 mi away/1,414 ft/99 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alton (IA10)RTNI4
Beside a road/5.3 mi away/1,411 ft/96 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station EW2631EW2631
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.5 mi away/1,424 ft/109 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
MilnervilleBKTI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/27.3 mi away/1,224 ft/91 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Orange City 4.0 WIA-SX-18
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.5 mi away/1,382 ft/67 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Sioux Center 2 SESIXI4
At a cooperative observer's station/6.0 mi away/1,368 ft/53 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 1.8 mi from Maurice, Iowa. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 5,000 ft; the ceiling is 5,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
46.4 F with a dew point of 39.2 F, 76 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,700 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 5,000 ft.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 24 mph, gusting 37 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 37 mph.
The full report of Sioux County, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Sioux Center 2 SE (SIXI4), 6.0 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 15:54. measured daily
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.