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Beside a road/11.4 mi away/693 ft/145 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Pulaski, Iowa
City in Davis County, Iowa* WHAT...Temperatures as low as 33 and widespread frost. * WHERE...Davis County. * WHEN...From 1 AM to 9 AM CDT Saturday. * IMPACTS...Frost could harm sensitive outdoor vegetation. Sensitive outdoor plants may be killed if left uncovered.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
52°
54°/45°
Clear·
Feels like 52°·Gentle breeze 12 mph NW
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for Pulaski until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Pulaski is 52° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 47°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 12 mph, gusting to 23 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 46° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 7 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 58°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:28 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:22 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 8 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
25Air quality
86%Humidity
10%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
52feels52
12mph
Today
Oct 16
5445
12%
19mph
Sat
Oct 17
5833
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6638
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
6944
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7246
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7550
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7655
10%
52°
54°45°
58°33°
66°38°
69°44°
72°46°
75°50°
76°55°
As of 1:00 AM in Pulaski, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Pulaski
Index 25, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Lake Sugema (IA), 14 miles off.
25Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)25Good13.8 mi
- Ozone16Good20 ppb13.8 mi
- Nitrogen dioxide0Good0.8 ppb13.8 mi
- Sulfur dioxide0Good0 ppb13.8 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 28, good.
GoodModerate
- 28YesterdayOct 15
- 29TodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Pulaski
0.09 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.09in
- Last 3 days
- 0.09in
Visibility
How far you can see at Pulaski, the next 43 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 Pulaski, IowaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Pulaski, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.9 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Rank851of 1,060
Citizen station GW2804GW2804
In a volunteer observer's own ground/27.2 mi away/751 ft/87 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
FairfieldFFL
At an airfield/28.9 mi away/795 ft/43 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Farmington 1ENE - Shimek State Forest RAWSFRMI4
A remote fire weather station/29.0 mi away/741 ft/97 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Bloomfield 6.5 EIA-DV-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.9 mi away/791 ft/47 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Bloomfield 1 WNWBLMI4
At a cooperative observer's station/9.7 mi away/853 ft/15 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Fairfield, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 28.9 mi from Pulaski, Iowa. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud reported; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
50.0 F with a dew point of 42.8 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 northwest (320 degrees) at 20 mph, gusting 31 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 32 mph.
The full report of Fairfield, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Pulaski
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Miltoncity, 6 mi
- Bloomfieldcity, 8 mi
- Cantrilcity, 11 mi
- Floriscity, 12 mi
- Drakesvillecity, 13 mi
- Leandocommunity, 13 mi
- Doudscommunity, 14 mi
- Eldoncity, 16 mi
- Keosauquacity, 16 mi
- Mount Sterlingcommunity, 19 mi
- Agencycity, 21 mi
- Moultoncity, 21 mi