At an airfield/0.1 mi away/1,438 ft/9 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Columbus Municipal Airport, Nebraska
Medium airport in Platte County, Nebraska* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 possible. * WHERE...Portions of southwest and west central Iowa and east central, northeast, and southeast Nebraska. * WHEN...From late Friday night through Saturday morning. * 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. To prevent water pipes from freezing; wrap or drain or allow them to drip slowly.
45°
58°/47°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 38°·Moderate breeze 17 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Columbus Municipal Airport until 8 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Columbus Municipal Airport is 45° and mostly cloudy at 9 PM. With the wind it feels like 38°. The dew point is 38°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 17 mph, gusting to 30 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 39° 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 77°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 52°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 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 8 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
18Air quality
66%Humidity
73%Cloud
Now
9:00 PM
45feels38
17mph
Today
Oct 15
5847
97%
17mph
Fri
Oct 16
5239
21mph
Sat
Oct 17
6030
17mph
Sun
Oct 18
6739
16mph
Mon
Oct 19
6843
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7344
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7753
10%
45°
58°47°
52°39°
60°30°
67°39°
68°43°
73°44°
77°53°
As of 9:00 PM in Columbus Municipal Airport, Nebraska.
Air quality
The air at Columbus Municipal Airport
Index 18, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Lincoln (NE), 56 miles off.
18Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)18Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 24, good.
GoodModerate
- 24YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Columbus Municipal Airport
0.83 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.83in
- Last 3 days
- 0.83in
Visibility
How far you can see at Columbus Municipal Airport, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 7 miles Sat 5 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- OLU
- ICAO
- KOLU
- IATA
- OLU
- Field elevation
- 1,447 ft
- Serves
- Columbus
- Kind
- Medium airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- OLU
- Wind now
- -
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02 / 20 unlit | 4,135 ft | 150 ft | Grass | 30° / 210° | - | - |
| 14 / 32 | 6,801 ft | 100 ft | Concrete | 150° / 330° | - | - |
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Columbus 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 now3 instruments
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.7 mi away/1,483 ft/36 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
David CityNE045
Beside a road/19.9 mi away/1,605 ft/158 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Columbus 1.6 ENENE-PL-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/1,433 ft/14 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
ColumbusCOLN1
At a cooperative observer's station/1.3 mi away/1,506 ft/59 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Columbus (COLN1), 1.3 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 23:59. measured daily
Elsewhere in Nebraska
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Columbus Municipal Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Columbuscity, 2 mi
- Lakeviewcommunity, 4 mi
- Richlandvillage, 7 mi
- Bellwoodvillage, 9 mi
- Duncanvillage, 9 mi
- Platte Centervillage, 10 mi
- Monroevillage, 14 mi
- Tarnovvillage, 14 mi
- Schuylercity, 14 mi
- Octaviavillage, 16 mi
- David Citycity, 17 mi
- Rising Cityvillage, 17 mi
Airports near Columbus Municipal Airport
- Karl Stefan Memorial AirportOFK, 37 mi
- York Municipal AirportJYR, 41 mi
- Wahoo Municipal AirportAHQ, 41 mi
- Albion Municipal Airport/Ron Levander FieldBVN, 42 mi
- Fremont Municipal AirportFET, 42 mi
- Aurora Municipal Al Potter FieldAUH, 51 mi
- Lincoln AirportLNK, 51 mi
- Wayne Municipal Airport / Stan Morris FieldLCG, 58 mi