D3-RWIS 81 213.48NE064
Beside a road/10.3 mi away/1,181 ft/198 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Fordyce until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 9 degrees warmer: a high of 59° after 50° today.
Now. Fordyce is 44° and overcast at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 36°. The dew point is 37°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 18 mph, gusting to 38 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 4 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 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:46 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:35 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 3 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Fordyce, Nebraska.
Air quality
Index 22, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Vermillion (SD), 23 miles off.
Yesterday measured 24, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.61 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 7 miles Fri 3 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Fordyce, NebraskaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Fordyce, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.8 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
D3-RWIS 81 213.48NE064
Beside a road/10.3 mi away/1,181 ft/198 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Crofton 8NGPDN1
At a river or reservoir gauge/11.7 mi away/1,259 ft/120 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
WayneLCG
At an airfield/37.0 mi away/1,419 ft/40 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Crofton 3.7 ENE-CD-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.8 mi away/1,563 ft/184 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
CroftonCRFN1
At a cooperative observer's station/7.6 mi away/1,696 ft/317 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 10.3 mi from Fordyce, Nebraska. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:22 AM local time: 3 of its 5 sheets.
44.4 F with a dew point of 31.4 F, 60 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 3,000 ft up.
From the west northwest (293 degrees) at 16 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale.
At 1,181 ft above sea level, 4 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 28.67 inHg and the temperature at 54.8 F; it reports 44.4 F, 10.4 F colder than standard.
The full report of D3-RWIS 81 213.48, in 5 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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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.