Citizen station FW1476FW1476
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.4 mi away/948 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Bathing Beach Park, Iowa
Beach in Buchanan County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 expected. * WHERE...Portions of northwest Illinois and east central, northeast, and southeast Iowa. * 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.
47°
53°/41°
Partly cloudy·
Feels like 40°·Moderate breeze 16 mph WNW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Bathing Beach Park until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Bathing Beach Park is 47° and partly cloudy at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 40°. The dew point is 40°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the west-northwest at 16 mph, gusting to 29 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 51° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:24 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:13 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 4 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
43Air quality
80%Humidity
44%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
47feels40
16mph
Today
Oct 16
5341
52%
24mph
Sat
Oct 17
5730
14mph
Sun
Oct 18
6438
17mph
Mon
Oct 19
6642
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7043
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7348
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7353
15%
47°
53°41°
57°30°
64°38°
66°42°
70°43°
73°48°
73°53°
As of 1:00 AM in Bathing Beach Park, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Bathing Beach Park
Index 43, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Waterloo (IA), 26 miles off.
43Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)43Good21.3 mi
- Ozone-17 ppb23.1 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 31, good.
GoodModerate
- 31YesterdayOct 15
- 23TodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Bathing Beach Park
0.98 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.98in
- Last 3 days
- 0.98in
Visibility
How far you can see at Bathing Beach Park, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 5 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Beach
- County
- Buchanan County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 42.4736° N
- Longitude
- 91.8956° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Bathing Beach Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
IndependenceIIB
At an airfield/3.1 mi away/965 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Urbana (I-380)RURI4
Beside a road/11.9 mi away/991 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Independence 0.9 WNWIA-BC-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/922 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Stanley 4 WSNYI4
At a cooperative observer's station/12.5 mi away/1,129 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Stanley 4 W (SNYI4), 12.5 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Bathing Beach Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
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