US-83 66 mi N of Thedford CherryNE804
Beside a road/7.1 mi away/3,002 ft/132 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Brownlee until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 15 degrees warmer: a high of 69° after 54° today.
Now. Brownlee is 39° and overcast at 5 AM. With the wind it feels like 29°. The dew point is 31°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northwest at 22 mph, gusting to 37 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 52° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 37° by 12 AM, under a mostly clear sky. 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 69°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:59 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:50 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 4 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 5:00 AM in Brownlee, Nebraska.
Precipitation
0.14 in in the last 24 hours, 0.24 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Brownlee, NebraskaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Brownlee, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
US-83 66 mi N of Thedford CherryNE804
Beside a road/7.1 mi away/3,002 ft/132 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
TR539VRFN1
At a river or reservoir gauge/15.9 mi away/2,894 ft/24 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
ThedfordTIF
At an airfield/22.8 mi away/2,911 ft/41 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
ValentineVALN1
At a cooperative observer's station/19.8 mi away/2,949 ft/79 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Valentine 23.4 SSWNE-CH-9
In a volunteer observer's own ground/20.1 mi away/3,028 ft/158 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 7.1 mi from Brownlee, Nebraska. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:43 AM local time: 3 of its 5 sheets.
43.5 F with a dew point of 39.0 F, 84 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,000 ft up.
From the north (0 degrees) at 21 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale.
At 3,002 ft above sea level, 10 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 26.81 inHg and the temperature at 48.3 F; it reports 43.5 F, 4.8 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.