Niobrara River above Soldier Creek near NiobraraNSBN1
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.8 mi away/1,329 ft/57 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Niobrara until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 9 degrees warmer: a high of 62° after 53° today.
Now. Niobrara is 41° and clear at 8 PM. The dew point is 31°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the west-northwest at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. 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 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 62°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 34°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:37 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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 8:00 PM in Niobrara, Nebraska.
Air quality
Index 28, good, led by ozone. Read at 8 PM from its reporting area, Santee Sioux Reservation (NE), 11 miles off.
Yesterday measured 24, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.42 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 7 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 1 PM.
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The 6 instruments nearest Niobrara, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Niobrara River above Soldier Creek near NiobraraNSBN1
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.8 mi away/1,329 ft/57 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
D3-RWIS 81 213.48NE064
Beside a road/32.5 mi away/1,181 ft/91 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station CW9774CW9774
In a volunteer observer's own ground/36.6 mi away/1,931 ft/659 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
O NeillONL
At an airfield/38.7 mi away/2,024 ft/752 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Verdel 6SseVDLN1
At a cooperative observer's station/9.8 mi away/1,335 ft/63 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Center 4.9 ENENE-KX-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/14.5 mi away/1,640 ft/368 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 5.8 mi from Niobrara, Nebraska. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 8:15 PM local time: 3 of its 3 sheets.
At 1,329 ft above sea level, 5 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 28.51 inHg and the temperature at 54.3 F; it reports 40.0 F, 14.3 F colder than standard.
On Oct 17 the noon sun stands 38 degrees above the horizon at 42.70 N, and the day is 10 h 49 min long. Level ground there takes 61 per cent of the noon sunlight a surface facing the sun would.
A data collection platform, 1,329 ft above sea level. Its report of Oct 16, 2026, 8:15 PM local time is written on the sensors that made 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.