Temperature
36 F at 2 AM; 61 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 36 F at its coolest, 2 AM.
- Now
- 36F
- 2 AM
- Highest
- 61F
- 3 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 36F
- 2 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Imperial Municipal Airport until 9 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 17 degrees warmer: a high of 76° after 59° today.
Now. Imperial Municipal Airport is 37° and clear at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 27°. The dew point is 25°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 16 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 59° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 3 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 84°, and the coolest Monday, near 74°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:05 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:02 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 2:00 AM in Imperial Municipal Airport, Nebraska.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.08 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03 / 21 unlit | 2,756 ft | 280 ft | GRE | 46° / 226° | - | - |
| 13 / 31 | 5,022 ft | 100 ft | Concrete | 143° / 323° | - | - |
Measured here
Every hour from Imperial Municip (IML), Imperial Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
36 F at 2 AM; 61 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 36 F at its coolest, 2 AM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 25 F, the air 64% saturated; the humidity ran from 35% at 4 PM Thursday to 94% at 3 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
12 mph from the west northwest at 2 AM; at its strongest 25 mph, 1 PM Thursday, with a gust of 41 mph at 2 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.65 inHg at 2 AM, rising 0.11 inHg over 3 hours; 0.55 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 4 miles at 11 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 700 ft at 3 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 15 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Imperial Municip: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 6 instruments nearest Imperial Municipal Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/0.1 mi away/3,264 ft/11 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Johnson FarmS2111
At a soil climate station/10.9 mi away/3,341 ft/66 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Johnson Farm ScanJOFN1
On a farm or research station/10.9 mi away/3,341 ft/66 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Trenton-Macklin Bay on US 34 @ MP 56.06NE006
Beside a road/35.6 mi away/2,784 ft/491 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Imperial 0.4 WNWNE-CS-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.4 mi away/3,291 ft/16 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
ImperialIMPN1
At a cooperative observer's station/1.5 mi away/3,287 ft/12 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Imperial (IMPN1), 1.5 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 06:00. 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.