Tipton (I-80)RTPI4
Beside a road/8.5 mi away/663 ft/21 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Coming up. Tomorrow is 12 degrees cooler: a high of 55° after 67° today.
Now. West Liberty is 53° and overcast at 11 PM. The dew point is 49°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 13 mph, gusting to 25 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 46° by 5 AM, with some cloud. 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 55°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 mph. Frost is possible Saturday morning, a low of 33°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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 day is 11 hours 8 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in West Liberty, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 13, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Muscatine (IA), 15 miles off.
Yesterday measured 29, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.13 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 6 miles Fri 1 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over West Liberty, IowaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest West Liberty, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Tipton (I-80)RTPI4
Beside a road/8.5 mi away/663 ft/21 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station CW5749CW5749
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.0 mi away/754 ft/70 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Raingage at Rapid Creek below Morse414345091253801
At a river or reservoir gauge/13.8 mi away/740 ft/56 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Iowa CityIOW
At an airfield/15.3 mi away/669 ft/15 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
West Liberty 0.4 ESEIA-MC-12
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/678 ft/6 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Muscatine 2 NMSTI4
At a cooperative observer's station/13.3 mi away/699 ft/15 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 15.3 mi from West Liberty, Iowa. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:52 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 2,100 ft; the ceiling is 2,100 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
53.0 F with a dew point of 48.0 F, 83 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,200 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,100 ft.
From the west northwest (300 degrees) at 20 mph, gusting 29 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 45 mph.
The full report of Iowa City, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Muscatine 2 N (MSTI4), 13.3 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.