Beside a road/10.1 mi away/955 ft/17 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Redfield until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Redfield is 46° and overcast at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 40°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 13 mph, gusting to 23 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 52° by 3 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. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:34 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:26 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 5 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Redfield, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by fine particles. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Des Moines (IA), 28 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 17, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.98 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.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 2 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Redfield, IowaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Redfield, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Beside a road/10.1 mi away/955 ft/17 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
PerryPRO
At an airfield/16.2 mi away/1,004 ft/32 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station WA2GTMWA2GTM
In a volunteer observer's own ground/17.1 mi away/956 ft/16 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Des Moines River 4 WNW Saylorville ReservoirSAYI4
At a reservoir/27.3 mi away/896 ft/76 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
AmesS2031
At a soil climate station/37.4 mi away/1,073 ft/101 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Redfield 0.3 EIA-DL-35
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.2 mi away/956 ft/16 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
AdelADXI4
At a cooperative observer's station/11.2 mi away/961 ft/11 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 16.2 mi from Redfield, Iowa. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 3,800 ft, overcast at 4,600 ft; the ceiling is 3,800 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
47.5 F with a dew point of 41.0 F, 78 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,500 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 3,800 ft.
From the west northwest (300 degrees) at 16 mph, gusting 28 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 30 mph.
The full report of Perry, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.