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Beside a road/8.0 mi away/998 ft/74 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Verdon Lake State Recreation Area, Nebraska
State Recreation Area in Richardson 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.
53°
63°/54°
Clear·
Feels like 53°·Moderate breeze 13 mph NNW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Verdon Lake State Recreation Area until 8 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 9 degrees cooler: a high of 54° after 63° today.
Now. Verdon Lake State Recreation Area is 53° and clear at 10 PM. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 13 mph, gusting to 30 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 43° by 4 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 79°, 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 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 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
63%Humidity
3%Cloud
Now
10:00 PM
53feels53
13mph
Today
Oct 15
6354
97%
16mph
Fri
Oct 16
5442
21mph
Sat
Oct 17
6031
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6837
14mph
Mon
Oct 19
7146
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7647
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7954
overcast
53°
63°54°
54°42°
60°31°
68°37°
71°46°
76°47°
79°54°
As of 10:00 PM in Verdon Lake State Recreation Area, Nebraska.
Air quality
The air at Verdon Lake State Recreation Area
Index 15, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, St. Joseph (MO), 48 miles off.
15Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)6Good-
- Ozone15Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)8Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 48, good.
GoodModerate
- 48YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Verdon Lake State Recreation Area
0.17 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.17in
- Last 3 days
- 0.17in
Visibility
How far you can see at Verdon Lake State Recreation Area, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 6 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Recreation Area
- Area
- 2,490,000 sq ft
- Height at its point
- 924 ft
- County
- Richardson County
- State
- Nebraska
- Latitude
- 40.1454° N
- Longitude
- 95.7210° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Verdon Lake State Recreation Area, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/8.2 mi away/996 ft/72 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Little Nemaha River at Auburn, Nebr.06811500
At a river or reservoir gauge/17.8 mi away/890 ft/34 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Shubert 2SWSBTN1
At a cooperative observer's station/4.1 mi away/1,096 ft/172 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Dawson 6.4 SNE-RC-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.1 mi away/1,148 ft/224 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Shubert 2SW (SBTN1), 4.1 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Nebraska
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Verdon Lake State Recreation Area
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.