Haines Branch at SW 56th St at Lincoln, Nebr.06803093
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.5 mi away/1,165 ft/88 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Conestoga Lake 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°
Clear·
Feels like 40°·Gentle breeze 12 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Conestoga Lake State Recreation Area until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Conestoga Lake State Recreation Area is 46° and clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 40°. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 52° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 5 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 61°. 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
14Air quality
63%Humidity
9%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
46feels40
12mph
Today
Oct 16
5441
23mph
Sat
Oct 17
6130
15mph
Sun
Oct 18
6839
17mph
Mon
Oct 19
7044
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7546
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
8054
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7958
18%
46°
54°41°
61°30°
68°39°
70°44°
75°46°
80°54°
79°58°
As of 12:00 AM in Conestoga Lake State Recreation Area, Nebraska.
Air quality
The air at Conestoga Lake State Recreation Area
Index 14, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Lincoln (NE), 9 miles off.
14Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)14Good9.1 mi
- Ozone-23 ppb17.3 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 24, good.
GoodModerate
- 24YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Conestoga Lake State Recreation Area
0.69 in in the last 24 hours, 0.77 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.69in
- Last 3 days
- 0.77in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 90%
Visibility
How far you can see at Conestoga Lake State Recreation Area, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 4 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Recreation Area
- Area
- 0.49 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,253 ft
- County
- Lancaster County
- State
- Nebraska
- Latitude
- 40.7702° N
- Longitude
- 96.8441° W
What is measuring near here
The 8 instruments nearest Conestoga Lake State Recreation Area, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.5 miles away.
measured now6 instruments
Lincoln 11 SW94996
At a climate reference station/5.6 mi away/1,372 ft/119 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
LincolnLNK
At an airfield/6.0 mi away/1,155 ft/98 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station EW0351EW0351
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.5 mi away/1,310 ft/57 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
HWY 77 & Agnew Rd.NE046
Beside a road/20.0 mi away/1,183 ft/70 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Rodgers FarmS2001
At a soil climate station/20.3 mi away/1,214 ft/39 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Denton 2.2 ENE-LA-81
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.1 mi away/1,304 ft/51 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
CreteCTEN1
At a cooperative observer's station/11.8 mi away/1,434 ft/181 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), 11.8 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 Conestoga Lake State Recreation Area
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
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