Mason CityMCW
At an airfield/3.2 mi away/1,214 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
City Beach, Iowa
Beach in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 possible. * WHERE...Much of Iowa. * WHEN...From late Friday night through Saturday morning. * 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.
48°
56°/46°
Overcast·
Feels like 42°·Moderate breeze 14 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for City Beach until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. City Beach is 48° and overcast at 9 PM. With the wind it feels like 42°. The dew point is 45°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 14 mph, gusting to 25 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 43° by 1 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 51°. Rain is possible tomorrow (38%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 26 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 29°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 5 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
28Air quality
85%Humidity
97%Cloud
Now
9:00 PM
48feels42
14mph
Today
Oct 15
5646
100%
16mph
Fri
Oct 16
5138
38%
26mph
Sat
Oct 17
5729
17mph
Sun
Oct 18
6438
18mph
Mon
Oct 19
6541
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7042
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7348
11%
48°
56°46°
51°38°
57°29°
64°38°
65°41°
70°42°
73°48°
As of 9:00 PM in City Beach, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at City Beach
Index 28, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Waterloo (IA), 66 miles off.
28Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)28Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Fri Oct 16, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 31, good.
GoodModerate
- 31YesterdayOct 14
- 39TodayOct 15
- 23FriOct 16
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at City Beach
0.61 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.61in
- Last 3 days
- 0.61in
Visibility
How far you can see at City Beach, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 6 miles Fri 5 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Beach
- County
- Cerro Gordo County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 43.1347° N
- Longitude
- 93.3836° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest City Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.9 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Citizen station EW4052EW4052
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.3 mi away/1,239 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Mason City (I-35)RMCI4
Beside a road/7.0 mi away/1,234 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Clear Lake 1.1 NWIA-CG-16
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.9 mi away/1,222 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Mason CityMCWI4
At a cooperative observer's station/9.7 mi away/1,096 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 Mason City (MCWI4), 9.7 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near City Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Clear Lakecity, under 1 mi
- Venturacity, 5 mi
- Burchinalcommunity, 7 mi
- Fertilecity, 9 mi
- Mason Citycity, 9 mi
- Hanlontowncity, 10 mi
- Swaledalecity, 11 mi
- Millercommunity, 11 mi
- Garnercity, 12 mi
- Portlandcommunity, 13 mi
- Thorntoncity, 13 mi
- Manlycity, 14 mi
Beaches near City Beach
- Clear Lake State Park Beach2 mi
- Dodges Beach3 mi
- Farmers Beach4 mi
- Pine Lake Beach55 mi
- East Okoboji Beach87 mi
- Sandbar Beach87 mi
- Harlan Beach87 mi
- Moores Beach88 mi