Beside a road/10.4 mi away/676 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Buffalo Beach, Iowa
Beach in Scott County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 expected. * WHERE...Portions of northwest Illinois and east central, northeast, and southeast Iowa. * WHEN...From 1 AM 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.
45°
55°/43°
Partly cloudy·
Feels like 39°·Moderate breeze 13 mph WNW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Buffalo Beach until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Buffalo Beach is 45° and partly cloudy at 6 AM. With the wind it feels like 39°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the west-northwest at 13 mph, gusting to 24 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 55° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:20 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:12 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 5 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
21Air quality
81%Humidity
56%Cloud
Now
6:00 AM
45feels39
13mph
Today
Oct 16
5543
18%
20mph
Sat
Oct 17
5833
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6538
13mph
Mon
Oct 19
6939
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7143
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7446
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7551
11%
45°
55°43°
58°33°
65°38°
69°39°
71°43°
74°46°
75°51°
As of 6:00 AM in Buffalo Beach, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Buffalo Beach
Index 21, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 6 AM from its reporting area, Davenport (IA), 9 miles off.
21Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)19Good8.4 mi
- Ozone13Good12 ppb8.4 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)21Good1.7 mi
- Nitrogen dioxide1Good1.6 ppb8.4 mi
- Sulfur dioxide0Good0 ppb8.4 mi
- Carbon monoxide-0.1 ppm8.4 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 19, good.
GoodModerate
- 19YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Buffalo Beach
0.27 in in the last 24 hours, 0.44 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 5 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.27in
- Last 3 days
- 0.44in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 61%
Visibility
How far you can see at Buffalo Beach, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 9 miles Sat 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Beach
- County
- Scott County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 41.4553° N
- Longitude
- 90.7223° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Buffalo Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station DW3396DW3396
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.0 mi away/735 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Quad CitiesDVN
At an airfield/12.8 mi away/751 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Mississippi River AT Le Claire LD14LECI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/18.1 mi away/679 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Blue Grass 2.7 SSWIA-ST-51
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.0 mi away/725 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Davenport 6NDVNI4
At a cooperative observer's station/13.0 mi away/748 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 Davenport 6N (DVNI4), 13.0 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 Buffalo Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Buffalocity, under 1 mi
- Blue Grasscity, 4 mi
- Montpeliercommunity, 4 mi
- Davenportcity, 9 mi
- Walcottcity, 10 mi
- Fairportcommunity, 10 mi
- Stocktoncity, 12 mi
- Maysvillecity, 13 mi
- Bettendorfcity, 14 mi
- Durantcity, 14 mi
- Riverdalecity, 14 mi
- Plainviewcommunity, 15 mi
Beaches near Buffalo Beach
- Buffalo Shores Beach1 mi
- West Lake Park Beach5 mi
- Princeton Beach26 mi
- Sugar Bottom Day Use Beach48 mi
- South Beach51 mi
- Bathing Beach Park93 mi
- Rock Creek Beach112 mi
- Pine Lake Beach137 mi