Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Alliance Municipal Airport until 9 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 21 degrees warmer: a high of 73° after 52° today.
Now. Alliance Municipal Airport is 34° and clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 24°. The dew point is 26°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 17 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 51° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 6 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 Sunday, near 68°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 27°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:08 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10 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.
As of 12:00 AM in Alliance Municipal Airport, Nebraska.
Air quality
Index 24, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Scottsbluff (NE), 46 miles off.
Yesterday measured 30, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
0.13 in in the last 24 hours, 0.21 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08 / 26 | 6,190 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 89° / 269° | - | - |
| 12 / 30 | 9,203 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 133° / 313° | - | - |
| 17 / 35 unlit | 6,311 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 180° / 0° | - | - |
Measured here
Every hour from Alliance (AIA), Alliance Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
36 F at 9 PM Thursday; 57 F at its warmest, 1 PM Thursday, and 36 F at its coolest, 9 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 27 F, the air 69% saturated; the humidity ran from 37% at 6 PM Thursday to 96% at 1 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
12 mph from the north northwest at 9 PM Thursday; at its strongest 31 mph, 3 PM Thursday, with a gust of 51 mph at 3 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.60 inHg at 9 PM Thursday, rising 0.13 inHg over 3 hours; 0.49 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 3 miles at 9 AM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 400 ft at 1 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 17 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.15 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.09 in, in the hour to 9 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Alliance: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Alliance Municipal Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
AllianceAIA
At an airfield/0.4 mi away/3,923 ft/8 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Hemmingford - HWY 385 & 7E Junc @ MP 53NE023
Beside a road/20.6 mi away/4,136 ft/205 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Crescent LakeRESN1
At a river or reservoir gauge/24.5 mi away/3,930 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Alliance 5.4 ENE-BX-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.0 mi away/3,977 ft/46 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
HemmingfordHEMN1
At a cooperative observer's station/23.1 mi away/4,272 ft/341 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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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.