Salt Creek at Roca, Nebr.06803000
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.8 mi away/1,193 ft/106 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Wagon Train State Recreation Area, Nebraska
State Recreation Area in Lancaster 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°
59°/51°
Partly cloudy·
Feels like 42°·Gentle breeze 13 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Wagon Train State Recreation Area until 8 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Wagon Train State Recreation Area is 48° and partly cloudy at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 42°. The dew point is 37°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 13 mph, gusting to 27 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 42° 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 80°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 30°.
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 10 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
17Air quality
62%Humidity
41%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
48feels42
13mph
Today
Oct 15
5951
100%
19mph
Fri
Oct 16
5441
22mph
Sat
Oct 17
6030
14mph
Sun
Oct 18
6739
17mph
Mon
Oct 19
7045
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7547
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
8054
overcast
48°
59°51°
54°41°
60°30°
67°39°
70°45°
75°47°
80°54°
As of 11:00 PM in Wagon Train State Recreation Area, Nebraska.
Air quality
The air at Wagon Train State Recreation Area
Index 17, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Lincoln (NE), 14 miles off.
17Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)17Good-
- Ozone-23 ppb25 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 24, good.
GoodModerate
- 24YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Wagon Train State Recreation Area
0.65 in in the last 24 hours, 0.73 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.65in
- Last 3 days
- 0.73in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 89%
Visibility
How far you can see at Wagon Train State Recreation Area, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 7 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Recreation Area
- Area
- 0.9 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,299 ft
- County
- Lancaster County
- State
- Nebraska
- Latitude
- 40.6328° N
- Longitude
- 96.5807° W
What is measuring near here
The 8 instruments nearest Wagon Train 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 now6 instruments
Citizen station EW4760EW4760
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.0 mi away/1,385 ft/86 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
S.Cortland on HWY 77 @ MP 37NE041
Beside a road/13.7 mi away/1,440 ft/141 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Lincoln 8 ENE94995
At a climate reference station/14.4 mi away/1,189 ft/110 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Rodgers FarmS2001
At a soil climate station/16.1 mi away/1,214 ft/85 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
LincolnLNK
At an airfield/16.7 mi away/1,155 ft/144 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Hickman 0.8 NENE-LA-105
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.0 mi away/1,339 ft/40 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
AdamsADAN1
At a cooperative observer's station/12.5 mi away/1,247 ft/52 ft below 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 Wagon Train State Recreation Area
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
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