Citizen station FW7399FW7399
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.0 mi away/1,449 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Sandbar Beach, Iowa
Beach in Dickinson County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 29 expected. * WHERE...Portions of northwest and west central Iowa and southwest Minnesota. * WHEN...From midnight tonight 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.
43°
51°/39°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 34°·Fresh breeze 23 mph N
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Sandbar Beach until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Sandbar Beach is 43° and mostly cloudy at 11 AM. With the wind it feels like 34°. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north at 23 mph, gusting to 35 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 48° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 2 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:36 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:22 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 2 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
1UV Low
23Air quality
73%Humidity
82%Cloud
Now
11:00 AM
43feels34
23mph
Today
Oct 16
5139
25mph
Sat
Oct 17
5731
18mph
Sun
Oct 18
6340
18mph
Mon
Oct 19
6441
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6744
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7250
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7352
overcast
43°
51°39°
57°31°
63°40°
64°41°
67°44°
72°50°
73°52°
As of 11:00 AM in Sandbar Beach, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Sandbar Beach
Index 23, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 AM from its reporting area, South Central Minnesota (MN), 71 miles off.
23Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)9Good-
- Ozone23Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 26, good.
GoodModerate
- 26YesterdayOct 15
- 28TodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Sandbar Beach
0.20 in in the last 24 hours, 0.78 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 10 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.20in
- Last 3 days
- 0.78in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 26%
Visibility
How far you can see at Sandbar Beach, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 7 AM, lowest 10 miles Sat 3 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Beach
- County
- Dickinson County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 43.4861° N
- Longitude
- 95.0544° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Sandbar Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.9 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Estherville - Hwy 9RETI4
Beside a road/14.2 mi away/1,277 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
EsthervilleEST
At an airfield/16.5 mi away/1,316 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Spirit LakeSPRI4
At a cooperative observer's station/4.9 mi away/1,460 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Spirit Lake 0.8 EIA-DK-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.9 mi away/1,448 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Spirit Lake (SPRI4), 4.9 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Sandbar Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Orleanscity, 4 mi
- Spirit Lakecity, 5 mi
- Superiorcity, 7 mi
- Okobojicity, 8 mi
- Arnolds Parkcity, 9 mi
- Wahpetoncity, 10 mi
- West Okobojicity, 11 mi
- Milfordcity, 12 mi
- Esthervillecity, 13 mi
- Terrilcity, 13 mi
- Lake Parkcity, 13 mi
- Wallingfordcity, 17 mi
Beaches near Sandbar Beach
- Harlan Beachunder 1 mi
- Martha Yarns Memorial Beachunder 1 mi
- Anglers Bay Beachunder 1 mi
- Cedar Rapids Beach2 mi
- Maple Oak Beach2 mi
- McClelland Beach2 mi
- Inwood Park Beach3 mi
- Miniwaukon Beach3 mi