GrinnellRGII4
Beside a road/4.9 mi away/868 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Rock Creek Beach, Iowa
Beach in Jasper County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 29-32 expected and widespread frost. * WHERE...Much of central 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.
41°
52°/44°
Clear·
Feels like 38°·Light breeze 5 mph N
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Rock Creek Beach until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Rock Creek Beach is 41° and clear at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 38°. The dew point is 35°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 32° by 7 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 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:20 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 6 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
23Air quality
80%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
10:00 PM
41feels38
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
5244
20%
23mph
Sat
Oct 17
5732
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6438
15mph
Mon
Oct 19
6640
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6945
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7249
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7553
overcast
41°
52°44°
57°32°
64°38°
66°40°
69°45°
72°49°
75°53°
As of 10:00 PM in Rock Creek Beach, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Rock Creek Beach
Index 23, good, led by ozone. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Des Moines (IA), 44 miles off.
23Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)5Good-
- Ozone23Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 18, good.
GoodModerate
- 18YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
Smoke, the next 40 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Rock Creek Beach
0.04 in in the last 24 hours, 0.39 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.04in
- Last 3 days
- 0.39in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 10%
Visibility
How far you can see at Rock Creek Beach, the next 40 hours
Fog: visibility falls to 0.9 miles Sat 8 AM, under a mile for 1 hour.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Beach
- County
- Jasper County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 41.7426° N
- Longitude
- 92.8520° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Rock Creek Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.9 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
GrinnellGGI
At an airfield/6.5 mi away/1,007 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station CW8097CW8097
In a volunteer observer's own ground/19.3 mi away/1,012 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Prairie City 3SW - Neal Smith RAWSNSWI4
A remote fire weather station/24.2 mi away/892 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Des Moines 17 E54902
At a climate reference station/25.8 mi away/903 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Grinnell 0.6 NWIA-PW-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.2 mi away/1,014 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Grinnell 3 SWGRII4
At a cooperative observer's station/6.4 mi away/974 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 Rock Creek Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
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