Beside a road/5.8 mi away/787 ft/90 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Welton until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Welton is 51° and overcast at 12 AM. The dew point is 48°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the west-northwest at 14 mph, gusting to 26 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 53° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 40° by 11 PM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:20 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:10 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 5 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Welton, Iowa.
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On the radar over Welton, IowaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Welton, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Beside a road/5.8 mi away/787 ft/90 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
ClintonCWI
At an airfield/14.5 mi away/709 ft/12 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW0281GW0281
In a volunteer observer's own ground/18.5 mi away/770 ft/73 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Mississippi River AT Le Claire LD14LECI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/24.2 mi away/679 ft/18 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Welton 0.2 WNWIA-CN-26
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.5 mi away/740 ft/43 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
De WittDWTI4
At a cooperative observer's station/6.2 mi away/676 ft/21 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 14.5 mi from Welton, Iowa. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:56 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 2,100 ft; the ceiling is 2,100 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
51.0 F with a dew point of 48.0 F, 89 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 700 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,100 ft.
From the west northwest (300 degrees) at 16 mph, gusting 26 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 32 mph.
The full report of Clinton, 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.