Sidney (I-29/IA 2)RSDI4
Beside a road/8.2 mi away/942 ft/216 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Sidney, Iowa
City in Fremont County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 28 expected. * WHERE...Portions of southwest and west central Iowa and east central, northeast, and southeast Nebraska. * 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. To prevent water pipes from freezing; wrap or drain or allow them to drip slowly.
38°
53°/42°
Clear·
Feels like 38°·Light air 2 mph NNW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Sidney until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Sidney is 38° and clear at 11 PM. The dew point is 33°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the north-northwest at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 32° by 6 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 Thursday, near 78°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 35% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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
30Air quality
84%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
38feels38
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
5342
23mph
Sat
Oct 17
5832
13mph
Sun
Oct 18
6338
15mph
Mon
Oct 19
6542
partly cloudy day
Tue
Oct 20
7047
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7452
12%
Thu
Oct 22
7854
overcast
38°
53°42°
58°32°
63°38°
65°42°
70°47°
74°52°
78°54°
As of 11:00 PM in Sidney, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Sidney
Index 30, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Viking Lake State Park (IA), 35 miles off.
30Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)30Good-
- Ozone17Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 24, good.
GoodModerate
- 24YesterdayOct 15
- 20TodayOct 16
- 30SatOct 17
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Sidney
None in the last 24 hours; 0.56 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.56in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Sidney, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Sun 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Sidney, IowaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Sidney, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Rank863of 1,055
West Nishnabotna River 1 W RandolphRDPI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/9.4 mi away/942 ft/216 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
ShenandoahSDA
At an airfield/12.3 mi away/971 ft/187 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW5908FW5908
In a volunteer observer's own ground/23.2 mi away/1,196 ft/38 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Thurman 7.1 SSEIA-FM-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.2 mi away/977 ft/181 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
RandolphRANI4
At a cooperative observer's station/9.2 mi away/981 ft/177 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Shenandoah, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 12.3 mi from Sidney, Iowa. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 11:10 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
35.6 F with a dew point of 33.8 F, 93 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 400 ft up.
The wind
Calm.
The full report of Shenandoah, 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 Randolph (RANI4), 9.2 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Sidney
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.