Trenton-Macklin Bay on US 34 @ MP 56.06NE006
Beside a road/2.0 mi away/2,784 ft/32 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Swanson Reservoir State Recreation Area, Nebraska
State Recreation Area in Hitchcock County, Nebraska* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 29 possible. * WHERE...Portions of northwest and west central Kansas and southwest 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.
46°
62°/43°
Clear·
Feels like 39°·Fresh breeze 19 mph NNW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Swanson Reservoir State Recreation Area until 10 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Swanson Reservoir State Recreation Area is 46° and clear at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 39°. The dew point is 28°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northwest at 19 mph, gusting to 32 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 36° by 7 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 83°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 31°.
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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
15Air quality
50%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
46feels39
19mph
Today
Oct 15
6243
28%
24mph
Fri
Oct 16
5735
21mph
Sat
Oct 17
6931
20mph
Sun
Oct 18
7239
mostly clear day
Mon
Oct 19
7042
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7843
14mph
Wed
Oct 21
8353
overcast
46°
62°43°
57°35°
69°31°
72°39°
70°42°
78°43°
83°53°
As of 11:00 PM in Swanson Reservoir State Recreation Area, Nebraska.
Air quality
The air at Swanson Reservoir State Recreation Area
Index 15, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Goodland (KS), 65 miles off.
15Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)13Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)15Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 18, good.
GoodModerate
- 18YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Swanson Reservoir State Recreation Area
0.08 in in the last 24 hours, 0.12 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.08in
- Last 3 days
- 0.12in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 67%
Visibility
How far you can see at Swanson Reservoir State Recreation Area, the next 45 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
- 1.6 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 2,752 ft
- County
- Hitchcock County
- State
- Nebraska
- Latitude
- 40.1479° N
- Longitude
- 101.0949° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Swanson Reservoir State Recreation Area, 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 now5 instruments
Citizen station EW9525EW9525
In a volunteer observer's own ground/16.7 mi away/2,702 ft/50 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
McCookMKRN1
At a river or reservoir gauge/25.3 mi away/2,467 ft/285 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
MccookMCK
At an airfield/26.8 mi away/2,565 ft/187 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Johnson FarmS2111
At a soil climate station/36.4 mi away/3,341 ft/589 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Trenton DamTTNN1
At a dam/2.5 mi away/2,802 ft/50 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Culbertson 0.7 NWNE-HK-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/14.5 mi away/2,644 ft/108 ft below 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.
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