D3-RWIS 81 213.48NE064
Beside a road/11.7 mi away/1,181 ft/137 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Bow Valley until 8 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Bow Valley is 45° and overcast at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 38°. The dew point is 35°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the northwest at 19 mph, gusting to 30 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 39° by 8 AM, under cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 51°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 23 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 31°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 11 hours 6 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Bow Valley, Nebraska.
Air quality
Index 34, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Vermillion (SD), 17 miles off.
Yesterday measured 24, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.70 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 7 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Bow Valley, NebraskaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Bow Valley, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.4 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
D3-RWIS 81 213.48NE064
Beside a road/11.7 mi away/1,181 ft/137 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Crofton 8NGPDN1
At a river or reservoir gauge/14.4 mi away/1,259 ft/59 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
WayneLCG
At an airfield/35.5 mi away/1,419 ft/101 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Hartington 0.5 ENENE-CD-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.4 mi away/1,359 ft/41 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
CroftonCRFN1
At a cooperative observer's station/13.0 mi away/1,696 ft/378 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 11.7 mi from Bow Valley, Nebraska. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 9:38 PM local time: 3 of its 5 sheets.
45.5 F with a dew point of 29.4 F, 53 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 3,700 ft up.
From the west northwest (293 degrees) at 20 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale.
At 1,181 ft above sea level, 4 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 28.67 inHg and the temperature at 54.8 F; it reports 45.5 F, 9.3 F colder than standard.
The full report of D3-RWIS 81 213.48, in 5 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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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.