Iowa River AT Coralville DamCRVI4
At a dam/3.1 mi away/682 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Sugar Bottom Day Use Beach, Iowa
Beach in Johnson County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 possible. * WHERE...Portions of northwest Illinois and east central, northeast, and southeast 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.
53°
65°/55°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 53°·Moderate breeze 15 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Sugar Bottom Day Use Beach until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 10 degrees cooler: a high of 55° after 65° today.
Now. Sugar Bottom Day Use Beach is 53° and mostly cloudy at 10 PM. The dew point is 47°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 15 mph, gusting to 28 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 46° by 4 AM, under a mostly clear sky. 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 55°. Rain is possible tomorrow (33%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 mph. Frost is possible Saturday morning, a low of 33°.
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 south-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 8 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
7Air quality
84%Humidity
87%Cloud
Now
10:00 PM
53feels53
15mph
Today
Oct 15
6555
98%
18mph
Fri
Oct 16
5544
33%
22mph
Sat
Oct 17
5833
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6538
14mph
Mon
Oct 19
6743
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7145
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7449
overcast
53°
65°55°
55°44°
58°33°
65°38°
67°43°
71°45°
74°49°
As of 10:00 PM in Sugar Bottom Day Use Beach, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Sugar Bottom Day Use Beach
Index 7, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Iowa City (IA), 7 miles off.
7Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)7Good7.6 mi
- Ozone-18 ppb16.4 mi
- Sulfur dioxide0Good0 ppb16.4 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Fri Oct 16, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 36, good.
GoodModerate
- 36YesterdayOct 14
- 38TodayOct 15
- 25FriOct 16
Smoke, the next 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Sugar Bottom Day Use Beach
0.26 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
- 0.26in
- Last 3 days
- 0.26in
Visibility
How far you can see at Sugar Bottom Day Use Beach, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 9 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Beach
- County
- Johnson County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 41.7576° N
- Longitude
- 91.5564° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Sugar Bottom Day Use Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Iowa City (I-80)RIOI4
Beside a road/4.9 mi away/820 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Iowa CityIOW
At an airfield/8.2 mi away/669 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW2942GW2942
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.5 mi away/709 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Solon 4.2 SSWIA-JH-29
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.8 mi away/817 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Iowa CityICYI4
At a cooperative observer's station/7.6 mi away/650 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 Iowa City (ICYI4), 7.6 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 Sugar Bottom Day Use Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- North Libertycity, 3 mi
- Soloncity, 5 mi
- Coralvillecity, 5 mi
- Tiffincity, 6 mi
- Iowa Citycity, 7 mi
- University Heightscity, 7 mi
- Shueyvillecity, 7 mi
- Elycity, 8 mi
- Swishercity, 9 mi
- West Branchcity, 12 mi
- Oxfordcity, 12 mi
- Mount Vernoncity, 13 mi
Beaches near Sugar Bottom Day Use Beach
- Buffalo Shores Beach47 mi
- Buffalo Beach48 mi
- West Lake Park Beach48 mi
- Bathing Beach Park52 mi
- Princeton Beach64 mi
- Rock Creek Beach67 mi
- South Beach74 mi
- Pine Lake Beach89 mi