Citizen station DW2485DW2485
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.4 mi away/790 ft/53 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Oxford Junction until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 8 degrees cooler: a high of 55° after 63° today.
Now. Oxford Junction is 52° and overcast at 11 PM. The dew point is 50°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 14 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 45° by 5 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. 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 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 7 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Oxford Junction, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 11, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Davenport (IA), 37 miles off.
Yesterday measured 30, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.23 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 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Oxford Junction, IowaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Oxford Junction, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
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Citizen station DW2485DW2485
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.4 mi away/790 ft/53 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Beside a road/15.0 mi away/823 ft/86 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/19.5 mi away/835 ft/98 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Raingage at Rapid Creek below Morse414345091253801
At a river or reservoir gauge/30.1 mi away/740 ft/3 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Oxford Junction 0.1 SSEIA-JN-12
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.1 mi away/729 ft/8 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
LowdenLWDI4
At a cooperative observer's station/8.2 mi away/738 ft/1 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 19.5 mi from Oxford Junction, Iowa. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:55 PM local time: 3 of its 5 sheets.
Overcast at 1,400 ft; the ceiling is 1,400 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
50.0 F with a dew point of 50.0 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,400 ft.
At 835 ft above sea level, 3 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 29.03 inHg and the temperature at 56.0 F; the station's altimeter setting of 29.96 inHg means its barometer reads 29.07 inHg; it reports 50.0 F, 6.0 F colder than standard.
The full report of Monticello Muni, in 5 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Lowden (LWDI4), 8.2 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 23:59. 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.