SB Copper CreekIA094
Beside a road/9.8 mi away/879 ft/86 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Unionville until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Unionville is 52° and mostly clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 39°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 13 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 45° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 7 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 58°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:29 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:23 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 7 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Unionville, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 17, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Lake Sugema (IA), 37 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 28, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.01 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Unionville, IowaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 4 instruments nearest Unionville, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.2 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
SB Copper CreekIA094
Beside a road/9.8 mi away/879 ft/86 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
CentervilleTVK
At an airfield/14.2 mi away/1,027 ft/62 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Drakesville 4.7 WNWIA-DV-14
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.2 mi away/766 ft/199 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 14.2 mi from Unionville, Iowa. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
A few clouds at 3,400 ft, broken at 4,900 ft; the ceiling is 4,900 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
50.0 F with a dew point of 39.2 F, 66 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,500 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 3,400 ft.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 16 mph, gusting 23 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 23 mph.
The full report of Centerville, 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.