D2-RWIS 50 69.94NE061
Beside a road/13.3 mi away/1,294 ft/117 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Otoe until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Otoe is 45° and overcast at 4 AM. With the wind it feels like 38°. The dew point is 37°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 13 mph, gusting to 26 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 54° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 6 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 Thursday, near 79°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. 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 10:38 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in Otoe, Nebraska.
Air quality
Index 9, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Weeping Water (NE), 10 miles off.
Yesterday measured 9, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.58 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 8 miles Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Otoe, NebraskaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 8 instruments nearest Otoe, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.1 miles away.
measured now6 instruments
D2-RWIS 50 69.94NE061
Beside a road/13.3 mi away/1,294 ft/117 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/15.7 mi away/1,153 ft/24 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Rogers Farm #1 ScanROFN1
On a farm or research station/20.0 mi away/1,215 ft/38 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Rodgers FarmS2001
At a soil climate station/20.2 mi away/1,214 ft/37 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Citizen station FW9521FW9521
In a volunteer observer's own ground/21.1 mi away/1,167 ft/10 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Lincoln 8 ENE94995
At a climate reference station/24.3 mi away/1,189 ft/12 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
SyracuseSYCN1
At a cooperative observer's station/6.1 mi away/1,027 ft/150 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Nebraska City 5.5 WNE-OT-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.7 mi away/1,155 ft/22 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 13.3 mi from Otoe, Nebraska. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:11 AM local time: 3 of its 5 sheets.
44.8 F with a dew point of 33.0 F, 63 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,700 ft up.
From the northwest (323 degrees) at 9 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale.
At 1,294 ft above sea level, 5 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 28.55 inHg and the temperature at 54.4 F; it reports 44.8 F, 9.6 F colder than standard.
The full report of D2-RWIS 50 69.94, in 5 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Syracuse (SYCN1), 6.1 miles from here, read 12 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.