Fort Dodge (US 20)RFDI4
Beside a road/5.7 mi away/938 ft/214 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Moorland until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Moorland is 47° and mostly cloudy at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 42°. The dew point is 43°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 43° by 1 AM, with some 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 50°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 31°.
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. The day is 11 hours 6 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Moorland, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 14, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Des Moines (IA), 70 miles off.
Highest moderate, today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 20, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
1.10 in in the last 24 hours, 1.15 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 5 miles Fri 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Moorland, IowaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Moorland, 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 now3 instruments
Fort Dodge (US 20)RFDI4
Beside a road/5.7 mi away/938 ft/214 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW4516GW4516
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.5 mi away/1,111 ft/41 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Fort DodgeFOD
At an airfield/8.8 mi away/1,165 ft/13 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Moorland 0.2 WNWIA-WB-21
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.2 mi away/1,138 ft/14 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Fort Dodge 5 NNWWMTI4
At a cooperative observer's station/6.5 mi away/988 ft/164 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 8.8 mi from Moorland, Iowa. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 9:56 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 5,500 ft; the ceiling is 5,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
47.0 F with a dew point of 42.0 F, 83 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,200 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 5,500 ft.
From the west northwest (290 degrees) at 10 mph, gusting 16 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 22 mph.
The full report of Fort Dodge, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Fort Dodge 5 NNW (WMTI4), 6.5 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 06:27. 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.