Clearwater on HWY 275 @ MP 32.77NE019
Beside a road/1.6 mi away/1,774 ft/23 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Clearwater until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 8 degrees warmer: a high of 58° after 50° today.
Now. Clearwater is 43° and mostly cloudy at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 37°. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 11 mph, gusting to 36 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 2 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. 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 58°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:50 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:41 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 5 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Clearwater, Nebraska.
Air quality
Index 26, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Santee Sioux Reservation (NE), 49 miles off.
Yesterday measured 15, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.26 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 7 PM.
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The 6 instruments nearest Clearwater, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Clearwater on HWY 275 @ MP 32.77NE019
Beside a road/1.6 mi away/1,774 ft/23 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station CW9774CW9774
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.5 mi away/1,931 ft/134 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Neligh4V9
At an airfield/8.7 mi away/1,739 ft/58 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
At a river or reservoir gauge/34.8 mi away/1,385 ft/412 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Ewing 11.9 SNE-WH-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.1 mi away/1,982 ft/185 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
OakdaleOKDN1
At a cooperative observer's station/14.2 mi away/1,693 ft/104 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 1.6 mi from Clearwater, Nebraska. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:19 PM local time: 3 of its 4 sheets.
Calm.
At 1,774 ft above sea level, 6 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 28.05 inHg and the temperature at 52.7 F.
On Oct 16 the noon sun stands 39 degrees above the horizon at 42.17 N, and the day is 10 h 53 min long. Level ground there takes 63 per cent of the noon sunlight a surface facing the sun would.
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Oakdale (OKDN1), 14.2 miles from here, read 13 Oct, 08:00. 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.