Lincoln 11 SW94996
At a climate reference station/5.6 mi away/1,372 ft/58 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Bluestem State Recreation Area, Nebraska
State Recreation Area in Lancaster 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.
46°
54°/41°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 41°·Gentle breeze 10 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Bluestem State Recreation Area until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Bluestem State Recreation Area is 46° and mostly clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 41°. The dew point is 37°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 10 mph, gusting to 27 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 51° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° 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 80°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:46 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:41 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 8 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
17Air quality
66%Humidity
17%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
46feels41
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 16
5441
22mph
Sat
Oct 17
6030
14mph
Sun
Oct 18
6739
17mph
Mon
Oct 19
7044
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7546
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
8054
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7958
17%
46°
54°41°
60°30°
67°39°
70°44°
75°46°
80°54°
79°58°
As of 12:00 AM in Bluestem State Recreation Area, Nebraska.
Air quality
The air at Bluestem State Recreation Area
Index 17, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Lincoln (NE), 14 miles off.
17Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)17Good13.7 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 24, good.
GoodModerate
- 24YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Bluestem State Recreation Area
0.85 in in the last 24 hours, 1.05 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.85in
- Last 3 days
- 1.05in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 81%
Visibility
How far you can see at Bluestem State Recreation Area, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 5 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Recreation Area
- Area
- 0.68 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,314 ft
- County
- Lancaster County
- State
- Nebraska
- Latitude
- 40.6286° N
- Longitude
- 96.7813° W
What is measuring near here
The 8 instruments nearest Bluestem State Recreation Area, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.9 miles away.
measured now6 instruments
NE Lincoln 11 SWLNON1
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.0 mi away/1,362 ft/48 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station EW0351EW0351
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.1 mi away/1,310 ft/4 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
S.Cortland on HWY 77 @ MP 37NE041
Beside a road/11.7 mi away/1,440 ft/126 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
LincolnLNK
At an airfield/14.0 mi away/1,155 ft/159 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Rodgers FarmS2001
At a soil climate station/22.4 mi away/1,214 ft/100 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Sprague 1.4 SSWNE-LA-87
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.9 mi away/1,317 ft/3 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
CreteCTEN1
At a cooperative observer's station/8.9 mi away/1,434 ft/120 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 Crete (CTEN1), 8.9 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 06:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Nebraska
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Bluestem State Recreation Area
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
Parks near Bluestem State Recreation Area
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- Stagecoach State Recreation Area7 mi
- Conestoga Lake State Recreation Area10 mi
- Wagon Train State Recreation Area11 mi
- Pawnee Lake State Recreation Area16 mi
- Blue River State Recreation Area19 mi
- Homestead National Historical Park24 mi
- Branched Oak State Recreation Area26 mi