Citizen station GW0954GW0954
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.2 mi away/1,013 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Pine Lake Beach, Iowa
Beach in Hardin County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 possible. * WHERE...Much of 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.
48°
60°/52°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 43°·Gentle breeze 12 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Pine Lake 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 52° after 60° today.
Now. Pine Lake Beach is 48° and mostly cloudy at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 43°. The dew point is 40°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 44° by 1 AM, with some cloud. 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 52°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 24 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 31°.
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 day is 11 hours 7 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
42Air quality
75%Humidity
70%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
48feels43
now, partly cloudy
Today
Oct 15
6052
100%
17mph
Fri
Oct 16
5241
21%
24mph
Sat
Oct 17
5831
14mph
Sun
Oct 18
6539
16mph
Mon
Oct 19
6643
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7144
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7450
10%
48°
60°52°
52°41°
58°31°
65°39°
66°43°
71°44°
74°50°
As of 11:00 PM in Pine Lake Beach, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Pine Lake Beach
Index 42, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Waterloo (IA), 36 miles off.
42Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)42Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Fri Oct 16, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 31, good.
GoodModerate
- 31YesterdayOct 14
- 39TodayOct 15
- 23FriOct 16
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Pine Lake Beach
0.98 in in the last 24 hours, 1.00 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.98in
- Last 3 days
- 1.00in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 98%
Visibility
How far you can see at Pine Lake Beach, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 3 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Beach
- County
- Hardin County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 42.3705° N
- Longitude
- 93.0776° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Pine Lake Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Beside a road/5.8 mi away/1,142 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Iowa FallsIFA
At an airfield/11.7 mi away/1,137 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Eldora 1.2 ENEIA-HD-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.4 mi away/976 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Iowa FallsIWAI4
At a cooperative observer's station/14.8 mi away/1,132 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 Pine Lake Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Eldoracity, 1 mi
- Steamboat Rockcity, 3 mi
- Owasacity, 8 mi
- New Providencecity, 8 mi
- Whittencity, 8 mi
- Unioncity, 9 mi
- Wellsburgcity, 9 mi
- Hubbardcity, 12 mi
- Ackleycity, 13 mi
- Liscombcity, 13 mi
- Hollandcity, 14 mi
- Iowa Fallscity, 14 mi
Beaches near Pine Lake Beach
- Rock Creek Beach45 mi
- Clear Lake State Park Beach54 mi
- Dodges Beach54 mi
- Farmers Beach54 mi
- City Beach55 mi
- Bathing Beach Park61 mi
- Easter Lake Beach62 mi
- Sugar Bottom Day Use Beach89 mi