D3-RWIS 35 48.65NE063
Beside a road/22.3 mi away/1,463 ft/199 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Ponca State Park, Nebraska
State Park in Dixon County, Nebraska* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 possible. * WHERE...Portions of northwest and west central Iowa, southwest Minnesota, northeast Nebraska, and east central and southeast South Dakota. * 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.
47°
57°/45°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 40°·Moderate breeze 19 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Ponca State Park until 8 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Ponca State Park is 47° and mostly cloudy at 9 PM. With the wind it feels like 40°. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 19 mph, gusting to 29 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 40° by 8 AM, with some cloud. 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 51°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 24 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 31°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 day is 11 hours 6 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
28Air quality
62%Humidity
87%Cloud
Now
9:00 PM
47feels40
19mph
Today
Oct 15
5745
97%
20mph
Fri
Oct 16
5140
24mph
Sat
Oct 17
5931
19mph
Sun
Oct 18
6640
16mph
Mon
Oct 19
6643
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7045
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7553
15%
47°
57°45°
51°40°
59°31°
66°40°
66°43°
70°45°
75°53°
As of 9:00 PM in Ponca State Park, Nebraska.
Air quality
The air at Ponca State Park
Index 28, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Vermillion (SD), 15 miles off.
28Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)28Good-
- Ozone19Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 24, good.
GoodModerate
- 24YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Ponca State Park
0.80 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.80in
- Last 3 days
- 0.80in
Visibility
How far you can see at Ponca State Park, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 1 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 2 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,264 ft
- County
- Dixon County
- State
- Nebraska
- Latitude
- 42.6155° N
- Longitude
- 96.7370° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Ponca State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.0 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
WayneLCG
At an airfield/28.7 mi away/1,419 ft/155 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
South Omaha Creek AT WalthillWHLN1
At a river or reservoir gauge/34.8 mi away/1,204 ft/60 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Ponca 2.5 NWNE-DX-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.0 mi away/1,193 ft/71 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Newcastle 1 ENEWN1
At a cooperative observer's station/6.2 mi away/1,348 ft/84 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Newcastle 1 E (NEWN1), 6.2 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 06:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Nebraska
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Ponca State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
Parks near Ponca State Park
- Danish Alp State Recreation Area2 mi
- Danish Alps State Recreation Area20 mi
- Hideaway Acres State Recreation Area42 mi
- Lewis and Clark Lake State Recreation Area47 mi
- Maskenthine State Recreation Area50 mi
- Willow Creek Reservoir State Recreation Area53 mi
- Lewis and Clark State Recreation Area58 mi
- Dead Timber State Recreation Area62 mi