Beside a road/3.4 mi away/1,060 ft/31 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Villisca until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Villisca is 45° and overcast at 6 AM. With the wind it feels like 39°. The dew point is 40°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 13 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 53° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° 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 60°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:38 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:32 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 7 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 6:00 AM in Villisca, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 32, good, led by fine particles. Read at 6 AM from its reporting area, Viking Lake State Park (IA), 4 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 24, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.62 in in the last 24 hours, 0.64 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 5 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 8 miles Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Villisca, IowaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Villisca, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Beside a road/3.4 mi away/1,060 ft/31 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Nodaway River at Clarinda06817000
At a river or reservoir gauge/13.1 mi away/956 ft/135 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
ClarindaICL
At an airfield/14.4 mi away/978 ft/113 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW0898GW0898
In a volunteer observer's own ground/33.2 mi away/1,153 ft/62 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Nodaway 0.2 ESEIA-AD-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.5 mi away/1,129 ft/38 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
CorningCRNI4
At a cooperative observer's station/12.6 mi away/1,189 ft/98 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 14.4 mi from Villisca, Iowa. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 6:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 3,900 ft, overcast at 4,400 ft; the ceiling is 3,900 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
48.2 F with a dew point of 39.2 F, 71 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,100 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 3,900 ft.
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 15 mph, gusting 23 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 28 mph.
The full report of Clarinda, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Corning (CRNI4), 12.6 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.