Colfax - I-80RCFI4
Beside a road/4.4 mi away/788 ft/81 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Valeria, Iowa
City in Jasper County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 possible. * WHERE...Much of Iowa. * WHEN...From late Friday night through Saturday morning. * 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.
47°
52°/44°
Partly cloudy·
Feels like 43°·Gentle breeze 9 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Valeria until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Valeria is 47° and partly cloudy at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 43°. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 9 mph, gusting to 24 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 51° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 6 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 Wednesday, near 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:31 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:22 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 6 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
16Air quality
81%Humidity
49%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
47feels43
now, partly cloudy
Today
Oct 16
5244
22mph
Sat
Oct 17
5933
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6540
14mph
Mon
Oct 19
6745
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7246
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7552
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7557
16%
47°
52°44°
59°33°
65°40°
67°45°
72°46°
75°52°
75°57°
As of 1:00 AM in Valeria, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Valeria
Index 16, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Des Moines (IA), 22 miles off.
16Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)15Good-
- Ozone16Good19 ppb18.9 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 20, good.
GoodModerate
- 20YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Valeria
0.65 in in the last 24 hours, 0.69 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.65in
- Last 3 days
- 0.69in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 94%
Visibility
How far you can see at Valeria, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 4 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Valeria, IowaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 8 instruments nearest Valeria, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.0 miles away.
measured now6 instruments
Rank851of 1,060
Prairie City 3SW - Neal Smith RAWSNSWI4
A remote fire weather station/11.8 mi away/892 ft/23 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Des Moines 17 E54902
At a climate reference station/12.1 mi away/903 ft/34 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
AnkenyIKV
At an airfield/12.9 mi away/888 ft/19 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW3016DW3016
In a volunteer observer's own ground/14.2 mi away/986 ft/117 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
AmesS2031
At a soil climate station/27.6 mi away/1,073 ft/204 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Maxwell 8.1 SIA-PK-147
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.0 mi away/921 ft/52 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
HartfordHRFI4
At a cooperative observer's station/18.9 mi away/840 ft/29 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Ankeny, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 12.9 mi from Valeria, Iowa. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:35 AM 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 41.0 F, 76 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,700 ft up.
The wind
From the west northwest (300 degrees) at 15 mph, gusting 25 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 25 mph.
The full report of Ankeny, 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 Hartford (HRFI4), 18.9 miles from here, read 13 Oct, 07:50. measured daily
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Valeria
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Mingocity, 3 mi
- Mitchellvillecity, 5 mi
- Colfaxcity, 6 mi
- Bondurantcity, 7 mi
- Altoonacity, 10 mi
- Prairie Citycity, 10 mi
- Elkhartcity, 11 mi
- Baxtercity, 11 mi
- Maxwellcity, 12 mi
- Collinscity, 12 mi
- Lambs Grovecity, 13 mi
- Pleasant Hillcity, 13 mi