D2-RWIS 50 69.94NE061
Beside a road/5.7 mi away/1,294 ft/267 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Platte River State Park, Nebraska
State Park in Cass 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.
48°
58°/53°
Partly cloudy·
Feels like 43°·Gentle breeze 11 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Platte River State Park until 8 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Platte River State Park is 48° and partly cloudy at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 43°. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 11 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 43° by 8 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 78°, 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 32°.
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 9 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
15Air quality
62%Humidity
62%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
48feels43
now, partly cloudy
Today
Oct 15
5853
100%
15mph
Fri
Oct 16
5443
21mph
Sat
Oct 17
6032
12mph
Sun
Oct 18
6740
14mph
Mon
Oct 19
6947
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7448
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7855
overcast
48°
58°53°
54°43°
60°32°
67°40°
69°47°
74°48°
78°55°
As of 11:00 PM in Platte River State Park, Nebraska.
Air quality
The air at Platte River State Park
Index 15, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Weeping Water (NE), 9 miles off.
15Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)-16.5 mi
- Ozone-23 ppb21.6 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)15Good21.6 mi
- Sulfur dioxide0Good0.1 ppb21.6 mi
- Carbon monoxide-0.1 ppm20.7 mi
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Platte River State Park
0.90 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
- 0.90in
- Last 3 days
- 0.90in
Visibility
How far you can see at Platte River State Park, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 4 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 0.78 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,027 ft
- County
- Cass County
- State
- Nebraska
- Latitude
- 40.9936° N
- Longitude
- 96.2060° W
What is measuring near here
The 8 instruments nearest Platte River State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.0 miles away.
measured now6 instruments
Citizen station EW9007EW9007
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.2 mi away/1,144 ft/117 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Springfield Creek at Springfield, Nebr.06805530
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.4 mi away/1,027 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
MillardMLE
At an airfield/14.8 mi away/1,057 ft/30 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Rodgers FarmS2001
At a soil climate station/17.0 mi away/1,214 ft/187 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Lincoln 8 ENE94995
At a climate reference station/21.3 mi away/1,189 ft/162 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Springfield 4.4 SWNE-SY-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.0 mi away/1,206 ft/179 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Maha Scout CampSPNN1
At a cooperative observer's station/11.5 mi away/1,086 ft/59 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 Platte River State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- South Bendvillage, 2 mi
- Louisvillecity, 2 mi
- Manleyvillage, 6 mi
- Murdockvillage, 6 mi
- Cedar Creekvillage, 7 mi
- Linoma Beachcommunity, 7 mi
- Springfieldcity, 7 mi
- Meliacommunity, 8 mi
- Beacon Viewcommunity, 8 mi
- Weeping Watercity, 9 mi
- Ashlandcity, 9 mi
- Gretnacity, 10 mi
Parks near Platte River State Park
- Schramm Park State Recreation Area3 mi
- Eugene T. Mahoney State Park6 mi
- Memphis Lake State Recreation Area15 mi
- Two Rivers State Recreation Area17 mi
- Arbor Lodge State Historical Park28 mi
- Wagon Train State Recreation Area32 mi
- Fort Atkinson State Historical Park33 mi
- Fremont Lakes State Recreation Area35 mi