Crofton 8NGPDN1
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.6 mi away/1,259 ft/48 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Lewis and Clark Lake State Recreation Area, Nebraska
State Recreation Area in Knox 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.
45°
51°/39°
Overcast·
Feels like 37°·Moderate breeze 19 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Lewis and Clark Lake State Recreation Area until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 8 degrees warmer: a high of 59° after 51° today.
Now. Lewis and Clark Lake State Recreation Area is 45° and overcast at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 37°. The dew point is 37°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 19 mph, gusting to 38 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° by 4 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:46 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:35 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 2 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
26Air quality
68%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
45feels37
19mph
Today
Oct 16
5139
23mph
Sat
Oct 17
5932
20mph
Sun
Oct 18
6541
15mph
Mon
Oct 19
6442
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6944
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7553
12%
Thu
Oct 22
7355
15%
45°
51°39°
59°32°
65°41°
64°42°
69°44°
75°53°
73°55°
As of 1:00 AM in Lewis and Clark Lake State Recreation Area, Nebraska.
Air quality
The air at Lewis and Clark Lake State Recreation Area
Index 26, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Santee Sioux Reservation (NE), 13 miles off.
26Good
- Ozone26Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 15, good.
GoodModerate
- 15YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Lewis and Clark Lake State Recreation Area
0.65 in in the last 24 hours, 0.67 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.65in
- Last 3 days
- 0.67in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 97%
Visibility
How far you can see at Lewis and Clark Lake State Recreation Area, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 7 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Recreation Area
- Area
- 0.29 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,211 ft
- County
- Knox County
- State
- Nebraska
- Latitude
- 42.8402° N
- Longitude
- 97.6031° W
What is measuring near here
The 4 instruments nearest Lewis and Clark Lake State Recreation Area, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.6 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
D3-RWIS 81 213.48NE064
Beside a road/10.3 mi away/1,181 ft/30 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Crofton 3.7 ENE-CD-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.0 mi away/1,563 ft/352 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
CroftonCRFN1
At a cooperative observer's station/15.5 mi away/1,696 ft/485 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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 Lewis and Clark Lake State Recreation Area
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