Storm LakeSLB
At an airfield/2.1 mi away/1,476 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Casino Beach until 8 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Casino Beach is 44° and mostly cloudy at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 38°. The dew point is 39°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 15 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 41° by 8 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 50°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 25 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 31°.
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 6 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Casino Beach, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Sioux City (IA), 59 miles off.
Yesterday measured 14, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.86 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 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 2 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Casino Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Storm LakeSLB
At an airfield/2.1 mi away/1,476 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Beside a road/9.2 mi away/1,329 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Shagbark Hills ScanSHAI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/30.5 mi away/1,400 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Shagbark HillsS2068
At a soil climate station/30.8 mi away/1,119 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Storm Lake 3.1 SIA-BV-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.0 mi away/1,441 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Storm Lake 2 ESLBI4
At a cooperative observer's station/2.9 mi away/1,407 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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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.