Big Papillion Creek near Blair, Nebr.06610705
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.5 mi away/1,135 ft/76 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Arlington until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Arlington is 44° and overcast at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 38°. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 4 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. Air quality is moderate (index 52): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 77°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:43 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:36 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 6 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Arlington, Nebraska.
Air quality
Index 52, moderate, led by sulfur dioxide. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Omaha (NE), 24 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 42, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
1.30 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 5 AM.
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The 6 instruments nearest Arlington, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.0 miles away.
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Big Papillion Creek near Blair, Nebr.06610705
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.5 mi away/1,135 ft/76 ft below here
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At an airfield/8.5 mi away/1,188 ft/23 ft below here
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Citizen station N9XTN-3N9XTN-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.7 mi away/1,150 ft/61 ft below here
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Omaha @ I-680 & I-80 InterchangeNE039
Beside a road/21.3 mi away/1,181 ft/30 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Fremont 4.3 SENE-DD-12
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.0 mi away/1,166 ft/45 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
FremontFMTN1
At a cooperative observer's station/6.7 mi away/1,191 ft/20 ft below here
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Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 8.7 mi from Arlington, Nebraska. From its report of undefined: 3 of its 4 sheets.
From the west (270 degrees) at 7 mph, gusting 13 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
At 1,150 ft above sea level, 4 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 28.70 inHg and the temperature at 54.9 F; the station's altimeter setting of 30.30 inHg means its barometer reads 29.06 inHg; it reports 48.0 F, 6.9 F colder than standard.
On Oct 16 the noon sun stands 40 degrees above the horizon at 41.33 N, and the day is 10 h 55 min long. Level ground there takes 64 per cent of the noon sunlight a surface facing the sun would.
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Fremont (FMTN1), 6.7 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
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The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.