CrestonCSQ
At an airfield/13.1 mi away/1,290 ft/102 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Prescott, Iowa
City in Adams County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 possible. * WHERE...Much of Iowa. * WHEN...From late Friday night through Saturday morning. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
50°
61°/55°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 44°·Moderate breeze 16 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Prescott until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 9 degrees cooler: a high of 52° after 61° today.
Now. Prescott is 50° and mostly clear at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 44°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 16 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 43° by 3 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 76°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 52°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 24 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 sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 9 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
27Air quality
74%Humidity
26%Cloud
Now
10:00 PM
50feels44
16mph
Today
Oct 15
6155
90%
18mph
Fri
Oct 16
5242
24mph
Sat
Oct 17
5831
12mph
Sun
Oct 18
6538
16mph
Mon
Oct 19
6745
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7247
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7653
overcast
50°
61°55°
52°42°
58°31°
65°38°
67°45°
72°47°
76°53°
As of 10:00 PM in Prescott, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Prescott
Index 27, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Viking Lake State Park (IA), 23 miles off.
27Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)27Good22.9 mi
- Ozone18Good21 ppb22.9 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Fri Oct 16, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 34, good.
GoodModerate
- 34YesterdayOct 14
- 44TodayOct 15
- 21FriOct 16
Smoke, the next 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Prescott
0.34 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.34in
- Last 3 days
- 0.34in
Visibility
How far you can see at Prescott, the next 46 hours
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
On the radar over Prescott, IowaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Prescott, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Rank650of 1,060
Creston (US 34)RCEI4
Beside a road/16.0 mi away/1,273 ft/85 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Nodaway River at Clarinda06817000
At a river or reservoir gauge/28.6 mi away/956 ft/232 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW0898GW0898
In a volunteer observer's own ground/33.5 mi away/1,153 ft/35 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Creston 8.3 WNWIA-AD-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.5 mi away/1,266 ft/78 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
CorningCRNI4
At a cooperative observer's station/7.5 mi away/1,189 ft/1 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Creston, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 13.1 mi from Prescott, Iowa. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
A few clouds at 4,200 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
48.2 F with a dew point of 41.0 F, 76 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,700 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 4,200 ft.
The wind
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 18 mph, gusting 25 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 40 mph.
The full report of Creston, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Corning (CRNI4), 7.5 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Prescott
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Corningcity, 7 mi
- Cromwellcity, 8 mi
- Kentcommunity, 10 mi
- Lenoxcity, 10 mi
- Carboncity, 11 mi
- Crestoncity, 13 mi
- Sharpsburgcity, 15 mi
- Bridgewatercity, 16 mi
- Nodawaycity, 16 mi
- Orientcity, 16 mi
- Clearfieldcity, 17 mi
- Massenacity, 18 mi