Medicine CreekNE059
Beside a road/22.4 mi away/2,753 ft/294 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Hayes Center until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 14 degrees warmer: a high of 71° after 57° today.
Now. Hayes Center is 37° and mostly clear at 5 AM. With the wind it feels like 26°. The dew point is 26°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northwest at 23 mph, gusting to 38 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 57° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 4 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 82°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 71°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:03 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:59 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 5:00 AM in Hayes Center, Nebraska.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.02 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
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The 7 instruments nearest Hayes Center, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Medicine CreekNE059
Beside a road/22.4 mi away/2,753 ft/294 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station EW9525EW9525
In a volunteer observer's own ground/29.3 mi away/2,702 ft/345 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
McCookMKRN1
At a river or reservoir gauge/30.9 mi away/2,467 ft/580 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
MccookMCK
At an airfield/30.9 mi away/2,565 ft/482 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Johnson FarmS2111
At a soil climate station/38.0 mi away/3,341 ft/294 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Hayes CenterHAYN1
At a cooperative observer's station/0.2 mi away/3,071 ft/24 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Culbertson 0.7 NWNE-HK-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/21.2 mi away/2,644 ft/403 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 22.4 mi from Hayes Center, Nebraska. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:11 AM local time: 3 of its 5 sheets.
41.0 F with a dew point of 27.4 F, 58 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 3,100 ft up.
From the northwest (315 degrees) at 9 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale.
At 2,753 ft above sea level, 10 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 27.06 inHg and the temperature at 49.2 F; it reports 41.0 F, 8.2 F colder than standard.
The full report of Medicine Creek, in 5 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Hayes Center (HAYN1), 0.2 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.