D3-RWIS 35 48.65NE063
Beside a road/15.8 mi away/1,463 ft/210 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Martinsburg 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 60° after 51° today.
Now. Martinsburg is 43° and mostly cloudy at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 35°. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 18 mph, gusting to 29 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° 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 76°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:44 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:33 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 4 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Martinsburg, Nebraska.
Air quality
Index 21, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Vermillion (SD), 19 miles off.
Yesterday measured 24, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.73 in in the last 24 hours, 0.82 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Martinsburg, NebraskaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Martinsburg, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.0 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
D3-RWIS 35 48.65NE063
Beside a road/15.8 mi away/1,463 ft/210 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
WayneLCG
At an airfield/19.9 mi away/1,419 ft/166 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
South Omaha Creek AT WalthillWHLN1
At a river or reservoir gauge/30.6 mi away/1,204 ft/49 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Ponca 2.5 NWNE-DX-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.0 mi away/1,193 ft/60 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Newcastle 1 ENEWN1
At a cooperative observer's station/9.9 mi away/1,348 ft/95 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 15.8 mi from Martinsburg, Nebraska. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:19 PM local time: 3 of its 4 sheets.
From the west northwest (293 degrees) at 13 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale.
At 1,463 ft above sea level, 5 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 28.37 inHg and the temperature at 53.8 F.
On Oct 16 the noon sun stands 39 degrees above the horizon at 42.29 N, and the day is 10 h 53 min long. Level ground there takes 62 per cent of the noon sunlight a surface facing the sun would.
The full report of D3-RWIS 35 48.65, in 4 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Newcastle 1 E (NEWN1), 9.9 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 06:00. 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.