Citizen station FW7399FW7399
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.7 mi away/1,449 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Fairoak Beach, Iowa
Beach in Dickinson County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 possible. * WHERE...Portions of northwest and west central Iowa, southwest Minnesota, northeast Nebraska, and east central and southeast South Dakota. * 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.
44°
55°/42°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 37°·Moderate breeze 15 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Fairoak Beach until 8 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Fairoak Beach is 44° and mostly cloudy at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 37°. The dew point is 39°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 15 mph, gusting to 25 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 40° 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 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 50°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 24 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 29°.
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 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
-Air quality
75%Humidity
83%Cloud
Now
10:00 PM
44feels37
15mph
Today
Oct 15
5542
93%
16mph
Fri
Oct 16
5038
28%
24mph
Sat
Oct 17
5729
19mph
Sun
Oct 18
6538
19mph
Mon
Oct 19
6641
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7042
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7450
14%
44°
55°42°
50°38°
57°29°
65°38°
66°41°
70°42°
74°50°
As of 10:00 PM in Fairoak Beach, Iowa.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Fairoak Beach
0.83 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.83in
- Last 3 days
- 0.83in
Visibility
How far you can see at Fairoak Beach, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 5 miles Fri 3 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Beach
- County
- Dickinson County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 43.4094° N
- Longitude
- 95.1608° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Fairoak Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.7 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
SpencerSPW
At an airfield/16.8 mi away/1,322 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Estherville - Hwy 9RETI4
Beside a road/18.3 mi away/1,277 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Spirit Lake 1.0 SWIA-DK-9
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.7 mi away/1,443 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Vicks Corner-Spirit Lake IowaVICI4
At a cooperative observer's station/1.9 mi away/1,450 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Fairoak Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Okobojicity, 2 mi
- Spirit Lakecity, 3 mi
- Wahpetoncity, 3 mi
- Arnolds Parkcity, 4 mi
- Orleanscity, 4 mi
- West Okobojicity, 4 mi
- Milfordcity, 6 mi
- Lake Parkcity, 9 mi
- Superiorcity, 11 mi
- Fostoriacity, 12 mi
- Terrilcity, 12 mi
- Harriscity, 14 mi
Beaches near Fairoak Beach
- Pike's Point Beachunder 1 mi
- Omaha Beachunder 1 mi
- Egralharve Beachunder 1 mi
- Raebels Beach1 mi
- Estherville Beach1 mi
- Manhattan Beach1 mi
- Brownells Beach1 mi
- Dixon Beach2 mi