CherokeeCKP
At an airfield/8.2 mi away/1,226 ft/42 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Quimby, Iowa
City in Cherokee County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 possible, with the coldest readings expected east of Interstate 29. * WHERE...Portions of northwest and west central Iowa, southwest Minnesota, northeast Nebraska, and east central and southeast South Dakota. * WHEN...From late tonight 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.
45°
50°/40°
Overcast·
Feels like 38°·Moderate breeze 15 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Quimby until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Quimby is 45° and overcast at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 38°. The dew point is 38°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 15 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 49° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° by 4 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:39 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:28 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 3 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
19Air quality
72%Humidity
90%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
45feels38
15mph
Today
Oct 16
5040
24mph
Sat
Oct 17
5730
17mph
Sun
Oct 18
6540
18mph
Mon
Oct 19
6644
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7145
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7452
17%
Thu
Oct 22
7455
18%
45°
50°40°
57°30°
65°40°
66°44°
71°45°
74°52°
74°55°
As of 12:00 AM in Quimby, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Quimby
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Sioux City (IA), 38 miles off.
19Good
- Ozone19Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 14, good.
GoodModerate
- 14YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Quimby
0.70 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.70in
- Last 3 days
- 0.70in
Visibility
How far you can see at Quimby, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Quimby, IowaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Quimby, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.1 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Rank848of 1,060
CleghornRCGI4
Beside a road/13.0 mi away/1,429 ft/245 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Shagbark Hills ScanSHAI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/15.1 mi away/1,400 ft/216 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Shagbark HillsS2068
At a soil climate station/15.3 mi away/1,119 ft/65 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
In a volunteer observer's own ground/39.2 mi away/1,283 ft/99 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
WashtaWHTI4
At a cooperative observer's station/5.1 mi away/1,217 ft/33 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Cherokee 5.1 SIA-CK-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.0 mi away/1,342 ft/158 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The weather at Cherokee, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 8.2 mi from Quimby, Iowa. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
Overcast at 4,000 ft; the ceiling is 4,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
46.4 F with a dew point of 37.4 F, 71 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,100 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 4,000 ft.
The wind
From the west northwest (300 degrees) at 12 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 29 mph.
The full report of Cherokee, 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 Quimby
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.