Citizen station GW5795GW5795
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.5 mi away/1,588 ft/85 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Willow Creek Reservoir State Recreation Area, Nebraska
State Recreation Area in Pierce 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.
43°
51°/38°
Partly cloudy·
Feels like 35°·Moderate breeze 16 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Willow Creek Reservoir State Recreation Area until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 8 degrees warmer: a high of 59° after 51° today.
Now. Willow Creek Reservoir State Recreation Area is 43° and partly cloudy at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 35°. The dew point is 34°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 16 mph, gusting to 32 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 3 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 76°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:47 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:38 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-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 4 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
26Air quality
73%Humidity
60%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
43feels35
16mph
Today
Oct 16
5138
25mph
Sat
Oct 17
5930
20mph
Sun
Oct 18
6539
18mph
Mon
Oct 19
6542
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7144
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7652
10%
Thu
Oct 22
7455
15%
43°
51°38°
59°30°
65°39°
65°42°
71°44°
76°52°
74°55°
As of 1:00 AM in Willow Creek Reservoir State Recreation Area, Nebraska.
Air quality
The air at Willow Creek Reservoir State Recreation Area
Index 26, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Santee Sioux Reservation (NE), 47 miles off.
26Good
- Ozone26Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 15, good.
GoodModerate
- 15YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Willow Creek Reservoir State Recreation Area
0.75 in in the last 24 hours, 0.82 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.75in
- Last 3 days
- 0.82in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 91%
Visibility
How far you can see at Willow Creek Reservoir State Recreation Area, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 10 miles Fri 4 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Recreation Area
- Area
- 2.07 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,673 ft
- County
- Pierce County
- State
- Nebraska
- Latitude
- 42.1846° N
- Longitude
- 97.5918° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Willow Creek Reservoir State Recreation Area, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
NorfolkOFK
At an airfield/15.9 mi away/1,534 ft/139 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Hwy 81 at Madison Union Creek BridgeNE801
Beside a road/25.5 mi away/1,565 ft/108 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At a river or reservoir gauge/33.2 mi away/1,385 ft/288 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Pierce 0.3 WNE-PC-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.1 mi away/1,594 ft/79 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
PiercePIRN1
At a cooperative observer's station/3.7 mi away/1,587 ft/86 ft below 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 Pierce (PIRN1), 3.7 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 Willow Creek Reservoir State Recreation Area
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Piercecity, 3 mi
- Fostervillage, 7 mi
- Hadarvillage, 9 mi
- Osmondcity, 12 mi
- Battle Creekcity, 13 mi
- Meadow Grovevillage, 13 mi
- Norfolkcity, 14 mi
- McLeanvillage, 15 mi
- Woodland Parkcommunity, 15 mi
- Plainviewcity, 15 mi
- Hoskinsvillage, 15 mi
- Tildencity, 16 mi