Niobrara River above Soldier Creek near NiobraraNSBN1
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.7 mi away/1,329 ft/108 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Niobrara State Park, Nebraska
State Park 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.
44°
51°/40°
Overcast·
Feels like 36°·Fresh breeze 20 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Niobrara State Park until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 11 degrees warmer: a high of 62° after 51° today.
Now. Niobrara State Park is 44° and overcast at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 36°. The dew point is 37°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the northwest at 20 mph, gusting to 34 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 51° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° by 2 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 76°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 62°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:48 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:37 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
26Air quality
76%Humidity
99%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
44feels36
20mph
Today
Oct 16
5140
24mph
Sat
Oct 17
6233
20mph
Sun
Oct 18
6744
15mph
Mon
Oct 19
6544
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7045
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7654
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7356
15%
44°
51°40°
62°33°
67°44°
65°44°
70°45°
76°54°
73°56°
As of 12:00 AM in Niobrara State Park, Nebraska.
Air quality
The air at Niobrara State Park
Index 26, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Santee Sioux Reservation (NE), 12 miles off.
26Good
- Ozone26Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 15, good.
GoodModerate
- 15YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Niobrara State Park
0.30 in in the last 24 hours, 0.35 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.30in
- Last 3 days
- 0.35in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 86%
Visibility
How far you can see at Niobrara State Park, the next 44 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 Park
- Area
- 1.86 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,221 ft
- County
- Knox County
- State
- Nebraska
- Latitude
- 42.7768° N
- Longitude
- 98.0848° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Niobrara State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
D3-RWIS 81 213.48NE064
Beside a road/35.0 mi away/1,181 ft/40 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
O NeillONL
At an airfield/37.3 mi away/2,024 ft/803 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station CW9774CW9774
In a volunteer observer's own ground/37.9 mi away/1,931 ft/710 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Verdel 6SseVDLN1
At a cooperative observer's station/7.8 mi away/1,335 ft/114 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Center 4.9 ENENE-KX-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/18.1 mi away/1,640 ft/419 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 Niobrara State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
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- Hideaway Acres State Recreation Area30 mi
- Willow Creek Reservoir State Recreation Area48 mi
- Atkinson State Recreation Area49 mi
- Maskenthine State Recreation Area69 mi