Temperature
48 F at 10 PM; 61 F at its warmest, 5 PM, and 48 F at its coolest, 10 PM.
- Now
- 48F
- 10 PM
- Highest
- 61F
- 5 PM
- Lowest
- 48F
- 10 PM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Cambridge Municipal Airport until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Cambridge Municipal Airport is 46° and clear at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 39°. The dew point is 29°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 18 mph, gusting to 31 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 37° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 81°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 23 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 30°.
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 sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 11 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Cambridge Municipal Airport, Nebraska.
Precipitation
0.28 in in the last 24 hours, 0.30 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 10 miles Sat 6 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 / 33 | 4,098 ft | 60 ft | Concrete | 156° / 336° | - | - |
Measured here
Every hour from Cambridge (CSB), Cambridge Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
48 F at 10 PM; 61 F at its warmest, 5 PM, and 48 F at its coolest, 10 PM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 28 F, the air 46% saturated; the humidity ran from 33% at 8 PM to 100% at 11 PM Wednesday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
10 mph from the north northwest at 10 PM; at its strongest 18 mph, 3 PM, with a gust of 37 mph at 6 PM.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.45 inHg at 10 PM, rising 0.09 inHg over 3 hours; 0.37 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 1 mile at 12 AM; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 300 ft at 12 AM; a base was reported in 22 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.08 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.03 in, in the hour to 1 AM.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Cambridge: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Cambridge 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 now3 instruments
CambridgeCSB
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/2,411 ft/3 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Arapahoe-Republican R. US283 @ MP 19.54NE010
Beside a road/14.0 mi away/2,151 ft/263 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
McCookMKRN1
At a river or reservoir gauge/25.4 mi away/2,467 ft/53 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
CambridgeCMBN1
At a cooperative observer's station/1.8 mi away/2,257 ft/157 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Indianola 0.7 WNE-RW-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/15.0 mi away/2,396 ft/18 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
-
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.