US 30 ClintonSS0228
Beside a road/15.5 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for South Beach until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 8 degrees cooler: a high of 56° after 64° today.
Now. South Beach is 57° and overcast at 9 PM. The dew point is 54°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 43° by 5 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 56°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 32°.
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 7 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in South Beach, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 12, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Clinton (IA), 15 miles off.
Yesterday measured 30, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
0.20 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.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest South Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 9.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
US 30 ClintonSS0228
Beside a road/15.5 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
ClintonCWI
At an airfield/18.1 mi away/709 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Mississippi River AT Bellevue LD12BLVI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/18.8 mi away/587 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW8008GW8008
In a volunteer observer's own ground/33.4 mi away/715 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Clinton 6.3 NIA-CN-27
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.2 mi away/607 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Bellevue LD 12BLVI4
At a cooperative observer's station/18.8 mi away/587 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.