O NeillONL
At an airfield/6.0 mi away/2,024 ft/12 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Emmet until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 9 degrees cooler: a high of 48° after 57° today.
Now. Emmet is 42° and overcast at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 34°. The dew point is 31°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 16 mph, gusting to 33 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 37° by 8 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 48°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is Saturday, with wind to 21 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 30°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 day is 11 hours 6 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Emmet, Nebraska.
Air quality
Index 24, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Santee Sioux Reservation (NE), 54 miles off.
Yesterday measured 15, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.13 in in the last 24 hours, 0.15 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 7 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Emmet, NebraskaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Emmet, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
O NeillONL
At an airfield/6.0 mi away/2,024 ft/12 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Newport on HWY 20 @ MP 273NE030
Beside a road/25.7 mi away/2,211 ft/175 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station CW9774CW9774
In a volunteer observer's own ground/33.2 mi away/1,931 ft/105 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Niobrara River above Soldier Creek near NiobraraNSBN1
At a river or reservoir gauge/38.1 mi away/1,329 ft/707 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
OneillONLN1
At a cooperative observer's station/8.0 mi away/2,014 ft/22 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
O Neill 0.2 SENE-HT-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.3 mi away/1,995 ft/41 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 25.7 mi from Emmet, Nebraska. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 9:28 PM local time: 3 of its 5 sheets.
38.8 F with a dew point of 30.9 F, 73 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,800 ft up.
Calm.
At 2,211 ft above sea level, 8 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 27.61 inHg and the temperature at 51.1 F; it reports 38.8 F, 12.3 F colder than standard.
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Snow on the ground
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.