At an airfield/13.1 mi away/2,582 ft/117 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Wood Lake until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 8 degrees cooler: a high of 51° after 59° today.
Now. Wood Lake is 42° and mostly cloudy at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 32°. The dew point is 30°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the northwest at 24 mph, gusting to 36 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 34° by 8 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 77°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 51°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 24 mph. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 34°.
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 day is 11 hours 6 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Wood Lake, Nebraska.
Precipitation
0.24 in in the last 24 hours, 0.38 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Wood Lake, NebraskaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Wood Lake, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 13.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/13.1 mi away/2,582 ft/117 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
TR539VRFN1
At a river or reservoir gauge/15.5 mi away/2,894 ft/195 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station EW3958EW3958
In a volunteer observer's own ground/22.6 mi away/2,575 ft/124 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
US-83 66 mi N of Thedford CherryNE804
Beside a road/24.2 mi away/3,002 ft/303 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Ainsworth 1.3 SWNE-BR-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/19.9 mi away/2,531 ft/168 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
AinsworthASWN1
At a cooperative observer's station/20.3 mi away/2,516 ft/183 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 15.5 mi from Wood Lake, Nebraska. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:14 PM local time: 3 of its 5 sheets.
43.0 F with a dew point of 27.5 F, 54 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 3,500 ft up.
From the northwest (318 degrees) at 25 mph, gusting 40 mph: force 6, a strong breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 43 mph.
At 2,894 ft above sea level, 10 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 26.92 inHg and the temperature at 48.7 F; it reports 43.0 F, 5.7 F colder than standard.
The full report of TR539, in 5 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.