Anamosa (US 151)RCRI4
Beside a road/2.5 mi away/931 ft/57 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Stone City, Iowa
Community in Jones County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 expected. * WHERE...Portions of northwest Illinois and east central, northeast, and southeast Iowa. * 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.
48°
54°/42°
Clear·
Feels like 44°·Gentle breeze 11 mph NNW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Stone City until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Stone City is 48° and clear at 7 PM. With the wind it feels like 44°. The dew point is 37°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 11 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 32° by 7 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 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:12 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 4 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
8Air quality
69%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
7:00 PM
48feels44
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
5442
28%
21mph
Sat
Oct 17
5731
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6437
14mph
Mon
Oct 19
6739
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6942
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7145
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7450
overcast
48°
54°42°
57°31°
64°37°
67°39°
69°42°
71°45°
74°50°
As of 7:00 PM in Stone City, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Stone City
Index 8, good, led by fine particles. Read at 7 PM from its reporting area, Iowa City (IA), 33 miles off.
8Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)8Good19.6 mi
- Ozone-23 ppb14.9 mi
- Sulfur dioxide0Good0 ppb19.6 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 26, good.
GoodModerate
- 26YesterdayOct 15
- 22TodayOct 16
- 27SatOct 17
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Stone City
0.04 in in the last 24 hours, 0.34 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 6 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.04in
- Last 3 days
- 0.34in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 12%
Visibility
How far you can see at Stone City, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sun 1 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 6 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Stone City, IowaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Stone City, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Rank863of 1,055
Citizen station KE0ZOPKE0ZOP
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.6 mi away/953 ft/79 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/12.6 mi away/835 ft/39 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Raingage at Rapid Creek below Morse414345091253801
At a river or reservoir gauge/26.3 mi away/740 ft/134 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Anamosa 3.5 SWIA-JN-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.3 mi away/971 ft/97 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Anamosa 3SSWAMOI4
At a cooperative observer's station/3.2 mi away/872 ft/2 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Monticello Muni, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 12.6 mi from Stone City, Iowa. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 6:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
48.2 F with a dew point of 35.6 F, 62 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,900 ft up.
The wind
From the north northwest (330 degrees) at 8 mph, gusting 14 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 33 mph.
The full report of Monticello Muni, 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 Anamosa 3SSW (AMOI4), 3.2 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 06:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Stone City
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Anamosacity, 3 mi
- Martellecity, 6 mi
- Springvillecity, 6 mi
- Morleycity, 9 mi
- Prairieburgcity, 10 mi
- Central Citycity, 11 mi
- Monticellocity, 12 mi
- Lisboncity, 13 mi
- Marioncity, 13 mi
- Olincity, 13 mi
- Mount Vernoncity, 13 mi
- Center Junctioncommunity, 13 mi