At an airfield/9.7 mi away/1,153 ft/29 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Dunbar, Nebraska
Village in Otoe County, Nebraska* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 28 expected. * WHERE...Portions of southwest and west central Iowa and east central, northeast, and southeast Nebraska. * WHEN...From 1 AM to 9 AM CDT Saturday. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold. To prevent water pipes from freezing; wrap or drain or allow them to drip slowly.
53°
53°/42°
Clear·
Feels like 53°·Moderate breeze 14 mph N
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Dunbar until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Dunbar is 53° and clear at 5 PM. The dew point is 31°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north at 14 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 43° by 8 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 Thursday, near 76°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:43 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:38 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
1UV Low
9Air quality
43%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
5:00 PM
53feels53
14mph
Today
Oct 16
5342
22mph
Sat
Oct 17
5832
12mph
Sun
Oct 18
6339
15mph
Mon
Oct 19
6543
partly cloudy day
Tue
Oct 20
6948
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7453
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7656
overcast
53°
53°42°
58°32°
63°39°
65°43°
69°48°
74°53°
76°56°
As of 5:00 PM in Dunbar, Nebraska.
Air quality
The air at Dunbar
Index 9, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 5 PM from its reporting area, Weeping Water (NE), 15 miles off.
9Good
- Coarse particles (PM10)9Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 9, good.
GoodModerate
- 9YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Dunbar
None in the last 24 hours; 0.50 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 4 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.50in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Dunbar, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 1 PM, lowest 9 miles Sun 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Dunbar, NebraskaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 8 instruments nearest Dunbar, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.6 miles away.
measured now6 instruments
Rank121of 681
Beside a road/14.3 mi away/1,097 ft/27 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Little Nemaha River 2 ENE AuburnABRN1
At a river or reservoir gauge/21.7 mi away/909 ft/215 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW9521FW9521
In a volunteer observer's own ground/22.3 mi away/1,167 ft/43 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Rodgers FarmS2001
At a soil climate station/26.1 mi away/1,214 ft/90 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Lincoln 8 ENE94995
At a climate reference station/30.0 mi away/1,189 ft/65 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Nebraska City 5.5 WNE-OT-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.6 mi away/1,155 ft/31 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
SyracuseSYCN1
At a cooperative observer's station/8.0 mi away/1,027 ft/97 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Auburn/ Nebraska City, drawn
The nearest instrument reporting now, 14.3 mi from Dunbar, Nebraska. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:36 PM local time: 3 of its 5 sheets.
The air
54.9 F with a dew point of 30.4 F, 39 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 5,500 ft up.
The wind
From the north northeast (30 degrees) at 14 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The column
At 1,097 ft above sea level, 4 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 28.75 inHg and the temperature at 55.1 F; it reports 54.9 F, 0.2 F colder than standard.
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Syracuse (SYCN1), 8.0 miles from here, read 12 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Nebraska
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Dunbar
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.