Sloan I-29RSOI4
Beside a road/4.4 mi away/1,053 ft/20 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Sloan, Iowa
City in Woodbury County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 expected. * WHERE...Portions of northwest and west central Iowa, southwest Minnesota, northeast Nebraska, and east central and southeast South Dakota. * WHEN...From midnight tonight 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.
35°
59°/31°
Clear·
Feels like 35°·Light air 2 mph S
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Sloan until 9 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Sloan is 35° and clear at 2 AM. The dew point is 30°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the south at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 58° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 40° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 77°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 64°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:40 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 43% lit, and sets at 11:32 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 1 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
16Air quality
92%Humidity
1%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
35feels35
now, clear
Today
Oct 17
5931
18mph
Sun
Oct 18
6438
16mph
Mon
Oct 19
6438
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6943
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7449
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7751
overcast
Fri
Oct 23
7756
23%
15mph
35°
59°31°
64°38°
64°38°
69°43°
74°49°
77°51°
77°56°
As of 2:00 AM in Sloan, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Sloan
Index 16, good, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, WTN1 (NE), 10 miles off.
16Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)16Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)9Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 14, good.
GoodModerate
- 14YesterdayOct 16
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Sloan
None in the last 24 hours; 0.59 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.59in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Sloan, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sun 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 5 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Sloan, IowaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Sloan, 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
Rank863of 1,055
Sioux CitySUX
At an airfield/13.5 mi away/1,102 ft/29 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW2980FW2980
In a volunteer observer's own ground/18.3 mi away/1,103 ft/30 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Shagbark HillsS2068
At a soil climate station/26.9 mi away/1,119 ft/46 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Shagbark Hills ScanSHAI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/27.1 mi away/1,400 ft/327 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Sloan 0.2 WIA-WD-12
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.2 mi away/1,071 ft/2 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Holly Springs 1NWHLYI4
At a cooperative observer's station/7.3 mi away/1,066 ft/7 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Sioux City, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 13.5 mi from Sloan, Iowa. From its report of Oct 17, 2026, 1:52 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
32.0 F with a dew point of 30.0 F, 92 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 500 ft up.
The wind
Calm.
The full report of Sioux City, 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 Holly Springs 1NW (HLYI4), 7.3 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Sloan
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.