Citizen station EW4052EW4052
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.2 mi away/1,239 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Clear Lake State Park Beach until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Clear Lake State Park Beach is 44° and overcast at 4 AM. With the wind it feels like 37°. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 14 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 51° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:29 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:17 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.
As of 4:00 AM in Clear Lake State Park Beach, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 37, good, led by fine particles. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Waterloo (IA), 66 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 21, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.63 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 6 miles Fri 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 5 instruments nearest Clear Lake State Park Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.2 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Citizen station EW4052EW4052
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.2 mi away/1,239 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Mason CityMCW
At an airfield/4.6 mi away/1,214 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Mason City (I-35)RMCI4
Beside a road/5.7 mi away/1,234 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Clear Lake 1.4 WNWIA-CG-10
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.3 mi away/1,247 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Mason CityMCWI4
At a cooperative observer's station/10.7 mi away/1,096 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Mason City (MCWI4), 10.7 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.