Walker LakeWLKNV
Beside a road/14.9 mi away/4,104 ft/727 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Walker River State Recreation Area, Nevada
State Recreation Area in Lyon County, Nevada43°
77°/41°
Clear·
Feels like 39°·Light breeze 6 mph SSE
Now. Walker River State Recreation Area is 43° and clear at 8 AM. With the wind it feels like 39°. The dew point is 28°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the south-southeast at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 74° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 43° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 75°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 56°. Rain is likely Tuesday (53%) and Wednesday (62%). Rain is possible Thursday (43%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:16 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:21 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 11 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
11Air quality
46%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
8:00 AM
43feels39
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
7741
13mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
7543
15mph
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
7543
UV 6
Mon
Oct 19
7243
16mph
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
6141
53%
Wed
Oct 21
5638
62%
Thu
Oct 22
5637
43%
43°
77°41°
75°43°
75°43°
72°43°
61°41°
56°38°
56°37°
As of 8:00 AM in Walker River State Recreation Area, Nevada.
Air quality
The air at Walker River State Recreation Area
Index 11, good, led by fine particles. Read at 8 AM from its reporting area, Mono Lake (CA), 40 miles off.
11Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)11Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)6Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 6, good.
GoodModerate
- 6YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 46 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 5 AM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Walker River State Recreation Area
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 7 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Walker River State Recreation Area, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 5 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Recreation Area
- Area
- 19 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 4,831 ft
- County
- Lyon County
- State
- Nevada
- Latitude
- 38.6489° N
- Longitude
- 118.9724° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Walker River State Recreation Area, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 14.9 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
HawthorneHTH
At an airfield/19.8 mi away/4,209 ft/622 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Wellington - Smith ValleySMVN2
At a river or reservoir gauge/20.8 mi away/4,892 ft/61 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
HawthorneHTHN2
At a cooperative observer's station/20.6 mi away/4,396 ft/435 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Yerington 2.4 SNV-LY-16
In a volunteer observer's own ground/23.6 mi away/4,413 ft/418 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Hawthorne (HTHN2), 20.6 miles from here, read 13 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
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Near Walker River State Recreation Area
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Walker Lakecommunity, 12 mi
- Hawthornecommunity, 21 mi
- Schurzcommunity, 23 mi
- Smith Valleycommunity, 24 mi
- Yeringtoncity, 25 mi
- Topaz Ranch Estatescommunity, 30 mi
- Topaz Lakecommunity, 31 mi
- Double Springcommunity, 36 mi
- Carter Springscommunity, 39 mi
- Fish Springscommunity, 41 mi
- Ruhenstrothcommunity, 42 mi
- East Valleycommunity, 44 mi