ScottsbluffSBFN1
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.2 mi away/4,134 ft/195 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Nebraska/Rifle Sight Pass
Rifle Sight Pass, Nebraska
Mountain pass in Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska, at 4,329 ft* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures between 25 and 30 degrees possible. * WHERE...Western Nebraska and far southeast Wyoming. * WHEN...Until 9 AM MDT this 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.
34°
55°/25°
Clear·
Feels like 25°·Gentle breeze 13 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Rifle Sight Pass until 9 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 21 degrees warmer: a high of 76° after 55° today.
Now. Rifle Sight Pass is 34° and clear at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 25°. The dew point is 23°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 13 mph, gusting to 23 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 52° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 5 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 77°, and the coolest Sunday, near 70°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:12 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:05 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 5 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
34Air quality
61%Humidity
7%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
34feels25
13mph
Today
Oct 16
5525
13mph
Sat
Oct 17
7631
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
7038
mostly clear day
Mon
Oct 19
7136
clear day
Tue
Oct 20
7638
mostly clear day
Wed
Oct 21
7744
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 22
7745
10%
34°
55°25°
76°31°
70°38°
71°36°
76°38°
77°44°
77°45°
As of 1:00 AM in Rifle Sight Pass, Nebraska.
Air quality
The air at Rifle Sight Pass
Index 34, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Scottsbluff (NE), 7 miles off.
34Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)34Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 30, good.
GoodModerate
- 30YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Rifle Sight Pass
0.23 in in the last 24 hours, 0.33 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.23in
- Last 3 days
- 0.33in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 70%
Visibility
How far you can see at Rifle Sight Pass, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Mountain pass
- Height
- 4,329 ft
- County
- Scotts Bluff County
- State
- Nebraska
- Latitude
- 41.8264° N
- Longitude
- 103.7900° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Rifle Sight Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
D5-RWIS 385 187NE065
Beside a road/6.1 mi away/3,875 ft/454 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station FW9572FW9572
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.3 mi away/3,952 ft/377 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
ScottsbluffBFF
At an airfield/10.5 mi away/3,948 ft/381 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Scottsbluff 2WNWDERN1
At a cooperative observer's station/5.6 mi away/3,907 ft/422 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Gering 1.2 SSWNE-SB-23
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.0 mi away/3,974 ft/355 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Nebraska
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Rifle Sight Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
Mountain passes near Rifle Sight Pass
- Roubadeau Pass3 mi
- Coyote Pass4 mi
- Mitchell Pass4 mi