Osceola (US 34)ROSI4
Beside a road/1.5 mi away/1,096 ft/43 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Osceola until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 13 degrees cooler: a high of 52° after 65° today.
Now. Osceola is 51° and mostly clear at 11 PM. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 15 mph, gusting to 26 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 44° by 8 AM, with some cloud. 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 52°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 32°.
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 south-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 10 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Osceola, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 17, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Des Moines (IA), 35 miles off.
Highest moderate, today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 20, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.43 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
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The 6 instruments nearest Osceola, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Osceola (US 34)ROSI4
Beside a road/1.5 mi away/1,096 ft/43 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
OsceolaI75
At an airfield/4.2 mi away/1,110 ft/29 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Lucas 2SSW - Stephens State Forest RAWSSSFI4
A remote fire weather station/15.3 mi away/1,063 ft/76 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW2622GW2622
In a volunteer observer's own ground/23.4 mi away/941 ft/198 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Osceola 0.3 EIA-CL-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.1 mi away/1,140 ft/1 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
OsceolaOSEI4
At a cooperative observer's station/2.9 mi away/1,122 ft/17 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 4.2 mi from Osceola, Iowa. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:55 PM local time: 3 of its 3 sheets.
At 1,110 ft above sea level, 4 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 28.74 inHg and the temperature at 55.0 F.
On Oct 16 the noon sun stands 40 degrees above the horizon at 41.05 N, and the day is 10 h 56 min long. Level ground there takes 64 per cent of the noon sunlight a surface facing the sun would.
An airport station, 1,110 ft above sea level. Its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:55 PM local time is written on the sensors that made it.
The full report of Osceola, in 3 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Osceola (OSEI4), 2.9 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.