At an airfield/4.3 mi away/1,309 ft/39 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Homestead National Historical Park, Nebraska
National Historical Park in Gage 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°
59°/53°
Clear·
Feels like 40°·Moderate breeze 14 mph NNW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Homestead National Historical Park until 8 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Homestead National Historical Park is 46° and clear at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 40°. The dew point is 39°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 14 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 41° by 4 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 21 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 30°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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 11 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
32Air quality
71%Humidity
1%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
46feels40
14mph
Today
Oct 15
5953
100%
17mph
Fri
Oct 16
5441
21mph
Sat
Oct 17
6030
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6739
16mph
Mon
Oct 19
7046
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7548
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
8055
overcast
46°
59°53°
54°41°
60°30°
67°39°
70°46°
75°48°
80°55°
As of 11:00 PM in Homestead National Historical Park, Nebraska.
Air quality
The air at Homestead National Historical Park
Index 32, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Beatrice (NE), 1 mile off.
32Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)32Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 32, good.
GoodModerate
- 32YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Homestead National Historical Park
0.55 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.55in
- Last 3 days
- 0.55in
Visibility
How far you can see at Homestead National Historical Park, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 4 miles Sat 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- National Historical Park
- Area
- 0.34 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,270 ft
- County
- Gage County
- State
- Nebraska
- Latitude
- 40.2879° N
- Longitude
- 96.8343° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Homestead National Historical Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.3 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Harbine on HWY 136 @ MP 161NE028
Beside a road/10.4 mi away/1,447 ft/177 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Salt Creek at Roca, Nebr.06803000
At a river or reservoir gauge/27.0 mi away/1,193 ft/77 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Lincoln 11 SW94996
At a climate reference station/27.8 mi away/1,372 ft/102 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Citizen station EW0351EW0351
In a volunteer observer's own ground/31.7 mi away/1,310 ft/40 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
BeatriceBRCN1
At a cooperative observer's station/4.6 mi away/1,309 ft/39 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Beatrice 0.6 ENE-GG-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.4 mi away/1,320 ft/50 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Beatrice (BRCN1), 4.6 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Nebraska
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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