Temperature
43 F at 9 PM; 55 F at its warmest, 2 PM, and 41 F at its coolest, 7 AM.
- Now
- 43F
- 9 PM
- Highest
- 55F
- 2 PM
- Lowest
- 41F
- 7 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Kimball Municipal Robert E Arraj Field, Nebraska
Small airport in Kimball County, Nebraska* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures between 25 and 30 degrees possible. * WHERE...Western Nebraska and far southeast Wyoming. * WHEN...From midnight tonight to 9 AM MDT Friday. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
37°
57°/36°
Clear·
Feels like 26°·Fresh breeze 22 mph NNW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Kimball Municipal Robert E Arraj Field until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Kimball Municipal Robert E Arraj Field is 37° and clear at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 26°. The dew point is 21°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northwest at 22 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 27° 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 79°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 26°.
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 south-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 9 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
21Air quality
50%Humidity
1%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
37feels26
22mph
Today
Oct 15
5736
88%
28mph
Fri
Oct 16
5726
20mph
Sat
Oct 17
7830
12mph
Sun
Oct 18
7338
15mph
Mon
Oct 19
7237
clear day
Tue
Oct 20
7739
clear day
Wed
Oct 21
7945
mostly clear day
37°
57°36°
57°26°
78°30°
73°38°
72°37°
77°39°
79°45°
As of 11:00 PM in Kimball Municipal Robert E Arraj Field, Nebraska.
Air quality
The air at Kimball Municipal Robert E Arraj Field
Index 21, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Scottsbluff (NE), 47 miles off.
21Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)21Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 30, good.
GoodModerate
- 30YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Kimball Municipal Robert E Arraj Field
0.08 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.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.08in
- Last 3 days
- 0.08in
Visibility
How far you can see at Kimball Municipal Robert E Arraj Field, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- IBM
- ICAO
- KIBM
- IATA
- -
- Field elevation
- 4,926 ft
- Serves
- Kimball
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- IBM
- Wind now
- -
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 / 28 | 6,199 ft | 75 ft | Concrete | 105° / 285° | - | - |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Kimball (IBM), Kimball Municipal Robert E Arraj Field's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 27 F, the air 53% saturated; the humidity ran from 44% at 2 PM to 100% at 12 AM.
- Dew point now
- 27F
- 9 PM
- Humidity now
- 53%
- Humidity, range
- 44 to 100%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
18 mph from the north at 9 PM; at its strongest 26 mph, 2 PM, with a gust of 38 mph at 3 PM.
- Now
- 18mph
- from the north
- Strongest
- 26mph
- 2 PM
- Highest gust
- 38mph
- 3 PM
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.62 inHg at 9 PM, rising 0.10 inHg over 3 hours; 0.51 inHg higher than a day before.
- Now
- 30.62inHg
- 9 PM
- 3 hours
- +0.10inHg
- rising
- 24 hours
- +0.51inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 5 miles at 3 AM; 10 miles or more now.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 5mi
- 3 AM
- Hours under a mile
- 0
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
Cloud base
The lowest cloud base came down to 500 ft at 12 AM; a base was reported in 22 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- -
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 500ft
- 12 AM
- Hours with a base reported
- 22
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
Precipitation
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Wettest hour
- -
- Hours with some
- 0
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Kimball: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Kimball Municipal Robert E Arraj Field, 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
KimballIBM
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/4,912 ft/14 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Bushnell 1SBSHN1
At a river or reservoir gauge/11.5 mi away/4,869 ft/57 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
WY/NE State line on I-80 @ MP .47NE000
Beside a road/19.3 mi away/5,053 ft/127 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Kimball 0.2 WSWNE-KM-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.1 mi away/4,737 ft/189 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
KimballKMBN1
At a cooperative observer's station/5.5 mi away/4,741 ft/185 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Nebraska
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Kimball Municipal Robert E Arraj Field
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
Airports near Kimball Municipal Robert E Arraj Field
- Sidney Municipal Airport Lloyd W Carr FieldSNY, 37 mi
- Western Neb. Rgnl/William B. Heilig AirportBFF, 48 mi
- Alliance Municipal AirportAIA, 75 mi
- Ogallala Municipal Airport Searle FieldOGA, 99 mi
- Grant Municipal AirportGGF, 104 mi
- Imperial Municipal AirportIML, 117 mi
- Chadron Municipal AirportCDR, 118 mi
- Gordon Municipal AirportGRN, 136 mi