US 30 ClintonSS0228
Beside a road/15.5 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
South Beach, Iowa
Beach in Jackson County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 possible. * WHERE...Portions of northwest Illinois and east central, northeast, and southeast 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.
49°
56°/43°
Overcast·
Feels like 44°·Gentle breeze 13 mph WNW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for South Beach until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. South Beach is 49° and overcast at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 44°. The dew point is 49°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 13 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 54° by 2 PM. 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 Wednesday, near 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:18 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:08 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
13Air quality
100%Humidity
91%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
49feels44
13mph
Today
Oct 16
5643
15%
17mph
Sat
Oct 17
5732
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6338
12mph
Mon
Oct 19
6640
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7042
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7346
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7350
11%
49°
56°43°
57°32°
63°38°
66°40°
70°42°
73°46°
73°50°
As of 1:00 AM in South Beach, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at South Beach
Index 13, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Clinton (IA), 15 miles off.
13Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)8Good16.5 mi
- Ozone13Good17 ppb12.8 mi
- Sulfur dioxide0Good0 ppb16.5 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 30, good.
GoodModerate
- 30YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at South Beach
0.20 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.20in
- Last 3 days
- 0.20in
Visibility
How far you can see at South Beach, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 7 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Beach
- County
- Jackson County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 42.0627° N
- Longitude
- 90.1726° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest South Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 9.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
ClintonCWI
At an airfield/18.1 mi away/709 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Mississippi River AT Bellevue LD12BLVI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/18.8 mi away/587 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW8008GW8008
In a volunteer observer's own ground/33.4 mi away/715 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Clinton 6.3 NIA-CN-27
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.2 mi away/607 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Bellevue LD 12BLVI4
At a cooperative observer's station/18.8 mi away/587 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 South Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Sabulacity, under 1 mi
- Andovercity, 7 mi
- Milescity, 7 mi
- Prestoncity, 11 mi
- Goose Lakecity, 13 mi
- Spraguevillecity, 13 mi
- Clintoncity, 15 mi
- Charlottecity, 17 mi
- Springbrookcity, 17 mi
- Bellevuecity, 19 mi
- Camanchecity, 19 mi
- Low Moorcity, 20 mi
Beaches near South Beach
- Princeton Beach27 mi
- West Lake Park Beach46 mi
- Buffalo Beach51 mi
- Buffalo Shores Beach51 mi
- Sugar Bottom Day Use Beach74 mi
- Bathing Beach Park93 mi
- Rock Creek Beach140 mi
- Pine Lake Beach150 mi