Clay Center HWY 14 & HWY 74NE049
Beside a road/5.5 mi away/1,757 ft/31 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Edgar until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Edgar is 36° and clear at 11 PM. The dew point is 31°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 31° 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 77°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 35% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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.
As of 11:00 PM in Edgar, Nebraska.
Air quality
Index 27, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Grand Island (NE), 44 miles off.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 1.05 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Sun 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Edgar, NebraskaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Edgar, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Clay Center HWY 14 & HWY 74NE049
Beside a road/5.5 mi away/1,757 ft/31 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Little Blue River 4 SE DeweeseDWEN1
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.6 mi away/1,693 ft/33 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
HebronHJH
At an airfield/25.3 mi away/1,458 ft/268 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW5481DW5481
In a volunteer observer's own ground/27.5 mi away/1,916 ft/190 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Clay CenterCLYN1
At a cooperative observer's station/9.2 mi away/1,742 ft/16 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Shickley 0.5 SSWNE-FL-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.1 mi away/1,650 ft/76 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 5.6 mi from Edgar, Nebraska. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 11:15 PM local time: 3 of its 3 sheets.
At 1,693 ft above sea level, 6 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 28.14 inHg and the temperature at 53.0 F; it reports 36.7 F, 16.2 F colder than standard.
On Oct 17 the noon sun stands 40 degrees above the horizon at 40.34 N, and the day is 10 h 55 min long. Level ground there takes 65 per cent of the noon sunlight a surface facing the sun would.
A data collection platform, 1,693 ft above sea level. Its report of Oct 16, 2026, 11:15 PM local time is written on the sensors that made it.
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Clay Center (CLYN1), 9.2 miles from here, read 16 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.