Gretna NE @ HWY 31 and I-80 exit 431NE037
Beside a road/1.3 mi away/1,274 ft/152 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Melia until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Melia is 48° and mostly cloudy at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 44°. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 9 mph, gusting to 28 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 51° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 7 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 78°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:43 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:37 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 6 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Melia, Nebraska.
Air quality
Index 15, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Weeping Water (NE), 17 miles off.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
1.10 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 4 AM.
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The 8 instruments nearest Melia, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.3 miles away.
measured now6 instruments
Gretna NE @ HWY 31 and I-80 exit 431NE037
Beside a road/1.3 mi away/1,274 ft/152 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW3991GW3991
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.8 mi away/1,066 ft/56 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
South Papillion Creek near Gretna, Nebr.06610786
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.0 mi away/1,119 ft/3 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
MillardMLE
At an airfield/10.9 mi away/1,057 ft/65 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Rodgers FarmS2001
At a soil climate station/19.9 mi away/1,214 ft/92 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Lincoln 8 ENE94995
At a climate reference station/23.2 mi away/1,189 ft/67 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Gretna 1.1 SWNE-SY-43
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.3 mi away/1,278 ft/156 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
GretnaGRAN1
At a cooperative observer's station/8.0 mi away/1,243 ft/121 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 1.3 mi from Melia, Nebraska. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:16 PM local time: 3 of its 5 sheets.
47.8 F with a dew point of 34.6 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.
Calm.
At 1,274 ft above sea level, 5 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 28.57 inHg and the temperature at 54.5 F; it reports 47.8 F, 6.6 F colder than standard.
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Gretna (GRAN1), 8.0 miles from here, read 15 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.