NE Lincoln 11 SWLNON1
At a river or reservoir gauge/14.0 mi away/1,362 ft/36 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Blue River State Recreation Area, Nebraska
State Recreation Area in Seward County, Nebraska* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 possible. * WHERE...Portions of southwest and west central Iowa and east central, northeast, and southeast Nebraska. * 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. To prevent water pipes from freezing; wrap or drain or allow them to drip slowly.
50°
59°/50°
Clear·
Feels like 44°·Moderate breeze 16 mph NNW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Blue River State Recreation Area until 8 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Blue River State Recreation Area is 50° and clear at 9 PM. With the wind it feels like 44°. The dew point is 38°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 16 mph, gusting to 28 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 41° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 80°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 30°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% lit, and sets at 9:47 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 10 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
18Air quality
61%Humidity
4%Cloud
Now
9:00 PM
50feels44
16mph
Today
Oct 15
5950
99%
18mph
Fri
Oct 16
5441
22mph
Sat
Oct 17
6030
14mph
Sun
Oct 18
6739
17mph
Mon
Oct 19
6945
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7546
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
8054
overcast
50°
59°50°
54°41°
60°30°
67°39°
69°45°
75°46°
80°54°
As of 9:00 PM in Blue River State Recreation Area, Nebraska.
Air quality
The air at Blue River State Recreation Area
Index 18, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Lincoln (NE), 24 miles off.
18Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)18Good24.3 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 24, good.
GoodModerate
- 24YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Blue River State Recreation Area
0.90 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.90in
- Last 3 days
- 0.90in
Visibility
How far you can see at Blue River State Recreation Area, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 5 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Recreation Area
- Area
- 951,000 sq ft
- Height at its point
- 1,398 ft
- County
- Seward County
- State
- Nebraska
- Latitude
- 40.7079° N
- Longitude
- 97.1208° W
What is measuring near here
The 8 instruments nearest Blue River State Recreation Area, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.8 miles away.
measured now6 instruments
Lincoln 11 SW94996
At a climate reference station/14.2 mi away/1,372 ft/26 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Citizen station EW7633EW7633
In a volunteer observer's own ground/15.4 mi away/1,441 ft/43 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
WilberNE047
Beside a road/16.0 mi away/1,509 ft/111 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
LincolnLNK
At an airfield/20.6 mi away/1,155 ft/243 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Rodgers FarmS2001
At a soil climate station/35.4 mi away/1,214 ft/184 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Milford 1.1 SSWNE-SW-9
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.8 mi away/1,462 ft/64 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
FriendFNDN1
At a cooperative observer's station/9.4 mi away/1,565 ft/167 ft above 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 Friend (FNDN1), 9.4 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Nebraska
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Blue River State Recreation Area
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Dorchestervillage, 4 mi
- Milfordcity, 6 mi
- Friendcity, 9 mi
- Beaver Crossingvillage, 10 mi
- Goehnervillage, 10 mi
- Cretecity, 10 mi
- Pleasant Dalevillage, 11 mi
- Cordovavillage, 12 mi
- Tamoracommunity, 14 mi
- Sewardcity, 14 mi
- Dentonvillage, 15 mi
- Kramercommunity, 15 mi
Parks near Blue River State Recreation Area
- Conestoga Lake State Recreation Area15 mi
- Olive Creek State Recreation Area17 mi
- Pawnee Lake State Recreation Area17 mi
- Bluestem State Recreation Area19 mi
- Branched Oak State Recreation Area23 mi
- Stagecoach State Recreation Area26 mi
- Wagon Train State Recreation Area29 mi
- Homestead National Historical Park33 mi