Gordon on HWY 20 @ MP 112NE031
Beside a road/22.1 mi away/3,651 ft/410 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Cottonwood Lake State Recreation Area, Nebraska
73°
74°/43°
Clear·
Feels like 73°·Moderate breeze 13 mph SSW
Now. Cottonwood Lake State Recreation Area is 73° and clear at 2 PM. The dew point is 43°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the south-southwest at 13 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 58° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 45° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Friday, near 81°, and the coolest Monday, near 54°. Rain is possible Saturday (45%). The windiest day is Friday, with wind to 25 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 5:56 PM. The Moon is a waxing gibbous, 71% lit, and sets at 2:08 AM after midnight. 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 bright Moon hides all but the brightest of them. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 10 hours 51 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
4UV Moderate
-Air quality
32%Humidity
1%Cloud
Now
2:00 PM
73feels73
now, clear
Today
Oct 20
7443
clear
Wed
Oct 21
6945
mostly clear
Thu
Oct 22
7850
mostly clear
Fri
Oct 23
8157
partly cloudy
Sat
Oct 24
45%
5545
mostly clear
Sun
Oct 25
26%
5537
partly cloudy
Mon
Oct 26
28%
5437
partly cloudy
As of 2:00 PM in Cottonwood Lake State Recreation Area, Nebraska.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Cottonwood Lake State Recreation Area
None in the last 3 days, to Tue 1 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Cottonwood Lake State Recreation Area, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Thu 6 AM, lowest 9 miles Thu 5 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Recreation Area
- Area
- 0.27 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 3,241 ft
- County
- Cherry County
- State
- Nebraska
- Latitude
- 42.9232° N
- Longitude
- 101.6749° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Cottonwood Lake State Recreation Area, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 22.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
measured daily2 instruments
GordonGORN1
At a cooperative observer's station/26.8 mi away/3,747 ft/506 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Clinton 0.1 ENENE-SD-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/35.9 mi away/3,744 ft/503 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Nebraska
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Cottonwood Lake State Recreation Area
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.