DawsonNE055
Beside a road/12.0 mi away/998 ft/63 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Du Bois until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Du Bois is 44° and mostly clear at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 38°. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 12 mph, gusting to 22 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 53° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 6 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 80°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:43 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:40 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 3:00 AM in Du Bois, Nebraska.
Air quality
Index 42, good, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Beatrice (NE), 44 miles off.
Yesterday measured 31, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.28 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Du Bois, NebraskaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Du Bois, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.7 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
DawsonNE055
Beside a road/12.0 mi away/998 ft/63 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/24.3 mi away/996 ft/65 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Little Nemaha River at Auburn, Nebr.06811500
At a river or reservoir gauge/27.7 mi away/890 ft/171 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Pawnee City 0.3 SWNE-PN-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.7 mi away/1,159 ft/98 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Salem 5SWSLMN1
At a cooperative observer's station/13.7 mi away/1,017 ft/44 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 12.0 mi from Du Bois, Nebraska. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:21 AM local time: 3 of its 5 sheets.
46.4 F with a dew point of 37.1 F, 70 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,100 ft up.
From the west (281 degrees) at 9 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale.
At 998 ft above sea level, 4 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 28.86 inHg and the temperature at 55.4 F; it reports 46.4 F, 9.0 F colder than standard.
The full report of Dawson, in 5 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Salem 5SW (SLMN1), 13.7 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. 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.