Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Beatrice Municipal Airport until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Beatrice Municipal Airport is 46° and clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 40°. The dew point is 38°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 13 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 51° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 30° by 7 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 80°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:46 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:42 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 8 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Beatrice Municipal Airport, Nebraska.
Air quality
Index 32, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Beatrice (NE), 4 miles off.
Yesterday measured 32, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.41 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 4 miles Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 / 32 | 4,401 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 143° / 323° | - | - |
| 18 / 36 | 5,602 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt and concrete | 180° / 0° | - | - |
Measured here
Every hour from Beatrice Municip (BIE), Beatrice Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
49 F at 10 PM Thursday; 56 F at its warmest, 5 PM Thursday, and 49 F at its coolest, 10 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 40 F, the air 69% saturated; the humidity ran from 66% at 9 PM Thursday to 100% at 2 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
15 mph from the north northwest at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 20 mph, 4 PM Thursday, with a gust of 32 mph at 9 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.35 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, rising 0.11 inHg over 3 hours; 0.30 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 2 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 6 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 22 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.39 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.14 in, in the hour to 4 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Beatrice Municip: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 6 instruments nearest Beatrice Municipal Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/1,309 ft/15 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
S.Cortland on HWY 77 @ MP 37NE041
Beside a road/11.5 mi away/1,440 ft/116 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Lincoln 11 SW94996
At a climate reference station/27.3 mi away/1,372 ft/48 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
NE Lincoln 11 SWLNON1
At a river or reservoir gauge/27.7 mi away/1,362 ft/38 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
BeatriceBRCN1
At a cooperative observer's station/0.3 mi away/1,309 ft/15 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Beatrice 0.6 ENE-GG-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.4 mi away/1,320 ft/4 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Beatrice (BRCN1), 0.3 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.