Newport on HWY 20 @ MP 273NE030
Beside a road/27.3 mi away/2,211 ft/223 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Naper until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 13 degrees warmer: a high of 62° after 49° today.
Now. Naper is 43° and overcast at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 33°. The dew point is 35°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Strong breeze from the northwest at 25 mph, gusting to 40 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 48° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° by 1 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 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 62°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 23 mph. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:52 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:41 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 2 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Naper, Nebraska.
Air quality
Index 27, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Santee Sioux Reservation (NE), 64 miles off.
Yesterday measured 15, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.17 in in the last 24 hours, 0.19 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 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
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The 3 instruments nearest Naper, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.3 miles away.
measured now1 instrument
Newport on HWY 20 @ MP 273NE030
Beside a road/27.3 mi away/2,211 ft/223 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Naper 5.4 SWNE-BY-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.3 mi away/1,830 ft/158 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
ButteBUTN1
At a cooperative observer's station/13.0 mi away/1,808 ft/180 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 27.3 mi from Naper, Nebraska. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:18 PM local time: 3 of its 5 sheets.
38.7 F with a dew point of 33.3 F, 81 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,200 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 38.7 F, 12.5 F colder than standard.
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Snow on the ground
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The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.