Beside a road/1.6 mi away/1,014 ft/93 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Missouri Valley until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Missouri Valley is 47° and mostly cloudy at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 41°. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 15 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. Air quality is moderate (index 52): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 77°, 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 6:41 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:33 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 6 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Missouri Valley, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 52, moderate, led by sulfur dioxide. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Pisgah (IA), 19 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 17, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
1.15 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Missouri Valley, IowaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Missouri Valley, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Beside a road/1.6 mi away/1,014 ft/93 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Honey Creek 1SE - Hitchcock RAWSHITI4
A remote fire weather station/9.7 mi away/1,273 ft/166 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station WX4TAZWX4TAZ
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.5 mi away/1,219 ft/112 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/21.7 mi away/1,240 ft/133 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Missouri Valley 0.1 ESEIA-HR-22
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.2 mi away/1,020 ft/87 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
LoganLOGI4
At a cooperative observer's station/6.3 mi away/1,142 ft/35 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 21.7 mi from Missouri Valley, Iowa. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 4,900 ft; the ceiling is 4,900 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
48.2 F with a dew point of 37.4 F, 66 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,500 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 4,900 ft.
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 15 mph, gusting 29 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 29 mph.
The full report of Council Bluffs, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Logan (LOGI4), 6.3 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. 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.