WayneLCG
At an airfield/16.4 mi away/1,419 ft/142 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Belden until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 9 degrees warmer: a high of 60° after 51° today.
Now. Belden is 42° and mostly cloudy at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 34°. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 17 mph, gusting to 31 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 49° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° by 4 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 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 29°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:45 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:35 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 3 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Belden, Nebraska.
Air quality
Index 28, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Vermillion (SD), 29 miles off.
Yesterday measured 24, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.64 in in the last 24 hours, 0.74 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
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The 6 instruments nearest Belden, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 12.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
WayneLCG
At an airfield/16.4 mi away/1,419 ft/142 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
D3-RWIS 35 48.65NE063
Beside a road/25.8 mi away/1,463 ft/98 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW5795GW5795
In a volunteer observer's own ground/27.4 mi away/1,588 ft/27 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Crofton 8NGPDN1
At a river or reservoir gauge/33.0 mi away/1,259 ft/302 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Haskell Agric LabNESN1
On a farm or research station/12.8 mi away/1,460 ft/101 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Hartington 0.2 NENE-CD-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/14.8 mi away/1,377 ft/184 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 25.8 mi from Belden, Nebraska. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:19 PM local time: 3 of its 4 sheets.
From the west northwest (293 degrees) at 13 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale.
At 1,463 ft above sea level, 5 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 28.37 inHg and the temperature at 53.8 F.
On Oct 16 the noon sun stands 39 degrees above the horizon at 42.29 N, and the day is 10 h 53 min long. Level ground there takes 62 per cent of the noon sunlight a surface facing the sun would.
The full report of D3-RWIS 35 48.65, in 4 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Haskell Agric Lab (NESN1), 12.8 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 17:00. 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.