Rogers Farm #1 ScanROFN1
On a farm or research station/4.5 mi away/1,215 ft/121 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Alvo until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Alvo is 45° and mostly cloudy at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 39°. The dew point is 35°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 11 mph, gusting to 25 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 51° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° 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 78°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:44 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:38 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 7 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Alvo, Nebraska.
Air quality
Index 12, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Weeping Water (NE), 13 miles off.
Yesterday measured 8, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.96 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 1 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 Alvo, NebraskaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 8 instruments nearest Alvo, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.2 miles away.
measured now6 instruments
Rogers Farm #1 ScanROFN1
On a farm or research station/4.5 mi away/1,215 ft/121 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Rodgers FarmS2001
At a soil climate station/4.7 mi away/1,214 ft/122 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Lincoln 8 ENE94995
At a climate reference station/9.4 mi away/1,189 ft/147 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
D2-RWIS 50 69.94NE061
Beside a road/11.3 mi away/1,294 ft/42 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station FW5980FW5980
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.3 mi away/1,314 ft/22 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
LincolnLNK
At an airfield/20.0 mi away/1,155 ft/181 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Alvo 2.1 WNE-CA-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.2 mi away/1,263 ft/73 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
SyracuseSYCN1
At a cooperative observer's station/18.6 mi away/1,027 ft/309 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 4.5 mi from Alvo, Nebraska. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:00 AM local time: 3 of its 3 sheets.
At 1,215 ft above sea level, 4 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 28.63 inHg and the temperature at 54.7 F; it reports 46.4 F, 8.3 F colder than standard.
On Oct 16 the noon sun stands 40 degrees above the horizon at 40.85 N, and the day is 10 h 56 min long. Level ground there takes 64 per cent of the noon sunlight a surface facing the sun would.
A data collection platform, 1,215 ft above sea level. Its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:00 AM local time is written on the sensors that made it.
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Syracuse (SYCN1), 18.6 miles from here, read 12 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.