Beside a road/6.9 mi away/1,014 ft/level with here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Modale until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Modale is 46° and overcast at 4 AM. With the wind it feels like 41°. The dew point is 39°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 13 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 54° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 7 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. Air quality is moderate (index 65): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 79°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. 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 10:34 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.
As of 4:00 AM in Modale, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 65, moderate, led by sulfur dioxide. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Pisgah (IA), 15 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 20, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
1.05 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 7 miles Sat 3 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Modale, IowaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Modale, 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 now4 instruments
Beside a road/6.9 mi away/1,014 ft/level with here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Missouri Valley 10W - Desoto RAWSDEOI4
A remote fire weather station/7.1 mi away/1,004 ft/10 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station WX4TAZWX4TAZ
In a volunteer observer's own ground/18.6 mi away/1,219 ft/205 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/28.0 mi away/1,240 ft/226 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Mondamin 1.7 SSWIA-HR-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.7 mi away/1,020 ft/6 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
LoganLOGI4
At a cooperative observer's station/10.1 mi away/1,142 ft/128 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 28.0 mi from Modale, Iowa. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 3,200 ft, overcast at 5,500 ft; the ceiling is 3,200 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
48.2 F with a dew point of 39.2 F, 71 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,100 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 3,200 ft.
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 13 mph, gusting 29 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 36 mph.
The full report of Council Bluffs, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Logan (LOGI4), 10.1 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.