Colfax - I-80RCFI4
Beside a road/5.3 mi away/788 ft/103 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Mingo, Iowa
City in Jasper County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 possible. * WHERE...Much of Iowa. * WHEN...From late Friday night through Saturday morning. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
48°
52°/44°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 43°·Gentle breeze 9 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Mingo until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Mingo is 48° and mostly clear at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 43°. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 9 mph, gusting to 20 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 51° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:30 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:22 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-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. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 5 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
16Air quality
84%Humidity
33%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
48feels43
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 16
5244
22mph
Sat
Oct 17
5932
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6540
14mph
Mon
Oct 19
6745
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7246
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7552
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7556
16%
48°
52°44°
59°32°
65°40°
67°45°
72°46°
75°52°
75°56°
As of 1:00 AM in Mingo, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Mingo
Index 16, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Des Moines (IA), 25 miles off.
16Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)15Good-
- Ozone16Good20 ppb21.7 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 20, good.
GoodModerate
- 20YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Mingo
0.61 in in the last 24 hours, 0.63 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.61in
- Last 3 days
- 0.63in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 97%
Visibility
How far you can see at Mingo, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Mingo, IowaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 8 instruments nearest Mingo, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.7 miles away.
measured now6 instruments
Rank851of 1,060
Prairie City 3SW - Neal Smith RAWSNSWI4
A remote fire weather station/13.7 mi away/892 ft/1 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Des Moines 17 E54902
At a climate reference station/14.4 mi away/903 ft/12 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Newton MuniTNU
At an airfield/14.9 mi away/942 ft/51 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW3016DW3016
In a volunteer observer's own ground/16.7 mi away/986 ft/95 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
AmesS2031
At a soil climate station/28.0 mi away/1,073 ft/182 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Maxwell 8.1 SIA-PK-147
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.7 mi away/921 ft/30 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Ames 5 SEAESI4
At a cooperative observer's station/20.0 mi away/863 ft/28 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Newton Muni, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 14.9 mi from Mingo, Iowa. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
48.2 F with a dew point of 48.2 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground.
The wind
From the west northwest (290 degrees) at 12 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Newton Muni, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Mingo
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Valeriacity, 3 mi
- Colfaxcity, 6 mi
- Baxtercity, 8 mi
- Mitchellvillecity, 8 mi
- Collinscity, 10 mi
- Bondurantcity, 11 mi
- Maxwellcity, 11 mi
- Lambs Grovecity, 11 mi
- Prairie Citycity, 12 mi
- Rhodescity, 12 mi
- Elkhartcity, 13 mi
- Newtoncity, 13 mi