S.Cortland on HWY 77 @ MP 37NE041
Beside a road/11.1 mi away/1,440 ft/155 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Adams until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Adams is 44° and mostly clear at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 38°. The dew point is 37°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 12 mph, gusting to 24 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 51° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° by 6 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 80°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:45 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:41 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Adams, Nebraska.
Air quality
Index 43, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Beatrice (NE), 20 miles off.
Yesterday measured 32, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.43 in in the last 24 hours, 0.44 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Adams, NebraskaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 8 instruments nearest Adams, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now6 instruments
S.Cortland on HWY 77 @ MP 37NE041
Beside a road/11.1 mi away/1,440 ft/155 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Salt Creek at Roca, Nebr.06803000
At a river or reservoir gauge/16.1 mi away/1,193 ft/92 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/16.7 mi away/1,309 ft/24 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station EW4760EW4760
In a volunteer observer's own ground/19.8 mi away/1,385 ft/100 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Lincoln 11 SW94996
At a climate reference station/24.0 mi away/1,372 ft/87 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Rodgers FarmS2001
At a soil climate station/27.3 mi away/1,214 ft/71 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
AdamsADAN1
At a cooperative observer's station/0.2 mi away/1,247 ft/38 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Firth 3.9 SWNE-GG-9
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.5 mi away/1,454 ft/169 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 11.1 mi from Adams, Nebraska. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:21 AM local time: 3 of its 5 sheets.
46.8 F with a dew point of -17.1 F, 6 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 13,900 ft up.
From the west northwest (295 degrees) at 13 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale.
At 1,440 ft above sea level, 5 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 28.40 inHg and the temperature at 53.9 F; it reports 46.8 F, 7.1 F colder than standard.
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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.