D5-RWIS 385 84.70NE062
Beside a road/8.5 mi away/4,216 ft/545 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Bridgeport State Recreation Area until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Bridgeport State Recreation Area is 43° and clear at 8 PM. With the wind it feels like 33°. The dew point is 28°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northwest at 24 mph, gusting to 43 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 28° 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 79°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 28°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% lit, and sets at 9:08 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 8:00 PM in Bridgeport State Recreation Area, Nebraska.
Air quality
Index 16, good, led by fine particles. Read at 8 PM from its reporting area, Scottsbluff (NE), 31 miles off.
Yesterday measured 30, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 12 PM.
Precipitation
0.04 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 7 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 12 PM, lowest 10 miles Fri 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Bridgeport State Recreation Area, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
D5-RWIS 385 84.70NE062
Beside a road/8.5 mi away/4,216 ft/545 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Minatare Dam (USBR)MDAN1
At a dam/24.8 mi away/4,147 ft/476 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
ScottsbluffBFF
At an airfield/27.9 mi away/3,948 ft/277 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW1433FW1433
In a volunteer observer's own ground/28.7 mi away/4,520 ft/849 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Bridgeport 0.2 NNENE-ML-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.5 mi away/3,676 ft/5 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Broadwater 3WNWBWRN1
At a cooperative observer's station/12.2 mi away/3,602 ft/69 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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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.