Centerville (IA 2)RCNI4
Beside a road/7.6 mi away/968 ft/84 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Promise City, Iowa
City in Wayne County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 29 expected. * WHERE...Much of central Iowa. * WHEN...From 1 AM to 9 AM CDT Saturday. * 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.
46°
53°/43°
Partly cloudy·
Feels like 41°·Gentle breeze 13 mph WNW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Promise City until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Promise City is 46° and partly cloudy at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 41°. The dew point is 39°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 13 mph, gusting to 24 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 52° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 6 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.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 76°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:31 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:25 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 7 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
21Air quality
76%Humidity
48%Cloud
Now
3:00 AM
46feels41
13mph
Today
Oct 16
5343
23mph
Sat
Oct 17
5933
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6539
12mph
Mon
Oct 19
6842
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7146
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7450
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7655
overcast
46°
53°43°
59°33°
65°39°
68°42°
71°46°
74°50°
76°55°
As of 3:00 AM in Promise City, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Promise City
Index 21, good, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Lake Sugema (IA), 60 miles off.
21Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)21Good-
- Ozone16Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 28, good.
GoodModerate
- 28YesterdayOct 15
- 29TodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Promise City
0.01 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.01in
- Last 3 days
- 0.01in
Visibility
How far you can see at Promise City, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 4 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Promise City, IowaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Promise City, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Rank957of 1,060
CentervilleTVK
At an airfield/13.8 mi away/1,027 ft/25 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Lucas 2SSW - Stephens State Forest RAWSSSFI4
A remote fire weather station/24.2 mi away/1,063 ft/11 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW7443GW7443
In a volunteer observer's own ground/38.7 mi away/937 ft/115 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Promise City 0.6 WIA-WY-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/1,053 ft/1 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
AllertonALRI4
At a cooperative observer's station/11.7 mi away/1,106 ft/54 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Centerville, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 13.8 mi from Promise City, Iowa. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
46.4 F with a dew point of 39.2 F, 76 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,600 ft up.
The wind
From the west northwest (290 degrees) at 9 mph, gusting 15 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 23 mph.
The full report of Centerville, 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 Allerton (ALRI4), 11.7 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 Promise City
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.