Crofton 8NGPDN1
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.7 mi away/1,259 ft/159 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Hideaway Acres State Recreation Area until 8 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 9 degrees cooler: a high of 50° after 59° today.
Now. Hideaway Acres State Recreation Area is 47° and overcast at 9 PM. With the wind it feels like 40°. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 18 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 39° by 8 AM, under cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 50°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 23 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 31°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% 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. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 11 hours 6 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Hideaway Acres State Recreation Area, Nebraska.
Air quality
Index 23, good, led by ozone. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Santee Sioux Reservation (NE), 18 miles off.
Yesterday measured 15, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
0.58 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.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 1 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 4 instruments nearest Hideaway Acres State Recreation Area, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.7 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
Crofton 8NGPDN1
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.7 mi away/1,259 ft/159 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
D3-RWIS 81 213.48NE064
Beside a road/5.2 mi away/1,181 ft/237 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Crofton 3.7 ENE-CD-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.4 mi away/1,563 ft/145 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
CroftonCRFN1
At a cooperative observer's station/13.8 mi away/1,696 ft/278 ft above 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.