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Beside a road/7.3 mi away/1,074 ft/112 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
West Union, Iowa
City in Fayette County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures ranging from the mid-20s to lower 30s. * WHERE...Portions of north central and northeast Iowa, southeast Minnesota, and central, north central, southwest, and west central Wisconsin. * WHEN...From 1 AM to 9 AM CDT Saturday. * 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.
37°
51°/40°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 34°·Light air 4 mph N
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for West Union until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. West Union is 37° and mostly clear at 11 PM. The dew point is 35°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the north at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. 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 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 35% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south. 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 2 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
20Air quality
90%Humidity
14%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
37feels34
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 16
5140
71%
19mph
Sat
Oct 17
5630
12mph
Sun
Oct 18
6238
14mph
Mon
Oct 19
6539
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6742
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7046
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7350
overcast
37°
51°40°
56°30°
62°38°
65°39°
67°42°
70°46°
73°50°
As of 11:00 PM in West Union, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at West Union
Index 20, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Waterloo (IA), 44 miles off.
20Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)20Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 21, good.
GoodModerate
- 21YesterdayOct 15
- 20TodayOct 16
- 28SatOct 17
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at West Union
0.07 in in the last 24 hours, 1.05 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.07in
- Last 3 days
- 1.05in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 7%
Visibility
How far you can see at West Union, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 7 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over West Union, IowaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest West Union, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Rank863of 1,055
Citizen station GW7645GW7645
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.7 mi away/1,025 ft/161 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
OelweinOLZ
At an airfield/21.1 mi away/1,076 ft/110 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Harpers Ferry 5WSW - Yellow River Park RAWSYSPI4
A remote fire weather station/32.0 mi away/748 ft/438 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Fayette 3NNWFYTI4
At a cooperative observer's station/5.6 mi away/1,122 ft/64 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
West Union 6.1 NIA-FY-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.9 mi away/935 ft/251 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The weather at Oelwein, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 21.1 mi from West Union, Iowa. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 11:35 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
37.4 F with a dew point of 35.6 F, 93 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 400 ft up.
The wind
From the north (350 degrees) at 6 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 37 mph.
The full report of Oelwein, 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 Fayette 3NNW (FYTI4), 5.6 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near West Union
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.