Des Moines (I-235)RDMI4
Beside a road/4.3 mi away/922 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Easter Lake Beach, Iowa
Beach in Polk County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 29 expected. * WHERE...Much of central 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.
46°
52°/44°
Overcast·
Feels like 39°·Moderate breeze 17 mph WNW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Easter Lake Beach until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Easter Lake Beach is 46° and overcast at 5 AM. With the wind it feels like 39°. The dew point is 40°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the west-northwest at 17 mph, gusting to 32 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 52° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 76°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:32 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:24 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 6 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
24Air quality
74%Humidity
94%Cloud
Now
5:00 AM
46feels39
17mph
Today
Oct 16
5244
11%
23mph
Sat
Oct 17
5933
12mph
Sun
Oct 18
6641
15mph
Mon
Oct 19
6744
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7147
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7452
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7657
10%
46°
52°44°
59°33°
66°41°
67°44°
71°47°
74°52°
76°57°
As of 5:00 AM in Easter Lake Beach, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Easter Lake Beach
Index 24, good, led by fine particles. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Des Moines (IA), 5 miles off.
24Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)24Good-
- Ozone19Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 18, good.
GoodModerate
- 18YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Easter Lake Beach
0.61 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 4 AM. 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 Easter Lake Beach, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 8 miles Fri 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Beach
- County
- Polk County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 41.5456° N
- Longitude
- 93.5621° W
What is measuring near here
The 8 instruments nearest Easter Lake Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.9 miles away.
measured now6 instruments
Des MoinesDSM
At an airfield/4.8 mi away/965 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW8044FW8044
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.2 mi away/949 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Des Moines River 4 WNW Saylorville ReservoirSAYI4
At a reservoir/12.7 mi away/896 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Des Moines 17 E54902
At a climate reference station/14.3 mi away/903 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
AmesS2031
At a soil climate station/32.4 mi away/1,073 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Des Moines 1.7 ESEIA-PK-126
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.9 mi away/878 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Des Moines AirportDSXI4
At an airfield/4.9 mi away/953 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 Des Moines Airport (DSXI4), 4.9 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 23:59. measured daily
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Easter Lake Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Pleasant Hillcity, 4 mi
- Des Moinescity, 4 mi
- Carlislecity, 5 mi
- Norwalkcity, 7 mi
- Altoonacity, 8 mi
- Windsor Heightscity, 9 mi
- Cummingcity, 10 mi
- Hartfordcity, 10 mi
- Spring Hillcity, 10 mi
- Saylorvillecommunity, 11 mi
- Runnellscity, 11 mi
- West Des Moinescity, 11 mi
Beaches near Easter Lake Beach
- Rock Creek Beach39 mi
- Little River Beach55 mi
- Pine Lake Beach62 mi
- Sugar Bottom Day Use Beach105 mi
- Bathing Beach Park107 mi
- Farmers Beach108 mi
- Dodges Beach108 mi
- Clear Lake State Park Beach108 mi