Mason City US18MSYI4
Beside a road/11.0 mi away/1,096 ft/15 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Rudd until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Rudd is 45° and mostly cloudy at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 38°. The dew point is 43°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 14 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 51° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 5 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:27 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:14 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 2 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Rudd, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 40, good, led by fine particles. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Waterloo (IA), 51 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 21, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.88 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 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 3 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Rudd, IowaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Rudd, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.6 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Mason City US18MSYI4
Beside a road/11.0 mi away/1,096 ft/15 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW1775GW1775
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.0 mi away/1,010 ft/101 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Charles CityCCY
At an airfield/15.2 mi away/1,116 ft/5 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Nora Springs 2.4 SSEIA-FL-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.6 mi away/1,045 ft/66 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Osage 1WOSAI4
At a cooperative observer's station/11.2 mi away/1,165 ft/54 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 15.2 mi from Rudd, Iowa. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 1,800 ft, broken at 2,700 ft, overcast at 4,300 ft; the ceiling is 2,700 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
44.6 F with a dew point of 44.6 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,800 ft.
From the west northwest (300 degrees) at 14 mph, gusting 22 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 23 mph.
The full report of Charles City, 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.