Storm LakeSLB
At an airfield/2.7 mi away/1,476 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Bel-Air Beach, Iowa
Beach in Buena Vista 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°/41°
Clear·
Feels like 40°·Light breeze 5 mph NNW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Bel-Air Beach until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Bel-Air Beach is 43° and clear at 7 PM. With the wind it feels like 40°. The dew point is 32°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north-northwest at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 32° by 3 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 55°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:26 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
30Air quality
65%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
7:00 PM
43feels40
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
5141
25mph
Sat
Oct 17
5532
17mph
Sun
Oct 18
6141
16mph
Mon
Oct 19
6342
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6646
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7152
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7354
overcast
43°
51°41°
55°32°
61°41°
63°42°
66°46°
71°52°
73°54°
As of 7:00 PM in Bel-Air Beach, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Bel-Air Beach
Index 30, good, led by ozone. Read at 6 PM from its reporting area, Sioux City (IA), 60 miles off.
30Good
- Ozone30Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 19, good.
GoodModerate
- 19YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Bel-Air Beach
None in the last 24 hours; 0.87 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 6 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.87in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Bel-Air Beach, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 1 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 3 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Beach
- County
- Buena Vista County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 42.6121° N
- Longitude
- 95.1906° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Bel-Air Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Beside a road/9.6 mi away/1,329 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Shagbark Hills ScanSHAI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/31.8 mi away/1,400 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Shagbark HillsS2068
At a soil climate station/32.1 mi away/1,119 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Storm Lake 3.1 SIA-BV-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.2 mi away/1,441 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Storm Lake 2 ESLBI4
At a cooperative observer's station/1.6 mi away/1,407 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 Bel-Air Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
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- Maywood Beach51 mi
- Jones Beach51 mi
- Bay View Beach51 mi
- Emerson Bay Public Beach51 mi
- Wheelers Beach52 mi