Citizen station EW4052EW4052
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.5 mi away/1,239 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Farmers 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.
44°
51°/38°
Overcast·
Feels like 37°·Gentle breeze 13 mph WNW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Farmers Beach until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Farmers Beach is 44° and overcast at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 37°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 13 mph, gusting to 30 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 49° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° by 5 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 29°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:30 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:17 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 3 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
43Air quality
85%Humidity
92%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
44feels37
13mph
Today
Oct 16
5138
42%
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%
Thu
Oct 22
7353
20%
44°
51°38°
57°29°
64°38°
65°41°
70°42°
73°48°
73°53°
As of 1:00 AM in Farmers Beach, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Farmers Beach
Index 43, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Waterloo (IA), 68 miles off.
43Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)43Good-
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 Farmers Beach
0.75 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
- 0.75in
- Last 3 days
- 0.75in
Visibility
How far you can see at Farmers Beach, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 2 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Beach
- County
- Cerro Gordo County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 43.1100° N
- Longitude
- 93.4502° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Farmers Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Mason CityMCW
At an airfield/7.0 mi away/1,214 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Mason City (I-35)RMCI4
Beside a road/7.4 mi away/1,234 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Clear Lake 1.4 WNWIA-CG-10
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.6 mi away/1,247 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Mason CityMCWI4
At a cooperative observer's station/13.4 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), 13.4 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 Farmers Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Venturacity, 2 mi
- Clear Lakecity, 4 mi
- Garnercity, 8 mi
- Millercommunity, 9 mi
- Burchinalcommunity, 9 mi
- Klemmecity, 10 mi
- Fertilecity, 11 mi
- Swaledalecity, 11 mi
- Thorntoncity, 12 mi
- Hanlontowncity, 12 mi
- Mason Citycity, 13 mi
- Duncancommunity, 13 mi
Beaches near Farmers Beach
- Dodges Beachunder 1 mi
- Clear Lake State Park Beach3 mi
- City Beach4 mi
- Pine Lake Beach54 mi
- East Okoboji Beach84 mi
- Moores Beach85 mi
- Sandbar Beach85 mi
- Harlan Beach85 mi