Johnson FarmS2111
At a soil climate station/7.0 mi away/3,341 ft/79 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Champion until 9 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 17 degrees warmer: a high of 76° after 59° today.
Now. Champion is 37° and clear at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 27°. The dew point is 24°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 16 mph, gusting to 31 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 59° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 3 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 84°, and the coolest Monday, near 74°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:06 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:02 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 8 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Champion, Nebraska.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.06 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Champion, NebraskaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Champion, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Johnson FarmS2111
At a soil climate station/7.0 mi away/3,341 ft/79 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Johnson Farm ScanJOFN1
On a farm or research station/7.0 mi away/3,341 ft/79 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/7.2 mi away/3,264 ft/2 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Trenton-Macklin Bay on US 34 @ MP 56.06NE006
Beside a road/39.4 mi away/2,784 ft/478 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Imperial 0.4 WNWNE-CS-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.3 mi away/3,291 ft/29 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
ImperialIMPN1
At a cooperative observer's station/6.5 mi away/3,287 ft/25 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 7.0 mi from Champion, Nebraska. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:00 AM local time: 3 of its 4 sheets.
35.4 F with a dew point of 26.6 F, 70 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,000 ft up.
At 3,341 ft above sea level, 11 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 26.48 inHg and the temperature at 47.1 F; it reports 35.4 F, 11.7 F colder than standard.
On Oct 16 the noon sun stands 41 degrees above the horizon at 40.37 N, and the day is 10 h 57 min long. Level ground there takes 65 per cent of the noon sunlight a surface facing the sun would.
The full report of Johnson Farm, in 4 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Imperial (IMPN1), 6.5 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 06:00. 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.