Arapahoe-Republican R. US283 @ MP 19.54NE010
Beside a road/14.1 mi away/2,151 ft/36 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Oxford until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 8 degrees warmer: a high of 64° after 56° today.
Now. Oxford is 41° and mostly cloudy at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 33°. The dew point is 30°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 16 mph, gusting to 30 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 53° 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 82°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 64°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:57 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:54 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 2:00 AM in Oxford, Nebraska.
Precipitation
0.10 in in the last 24 hours, 0.25 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Oxford, NebraskaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Oxford, 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 now4 instruments
Arapahoe-Republican R. US283 @ MP 19.54NE010
Beside a road/14.1 mi away/2,151 ft/36 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW3828GW3828
In a volunteer observer's own ground/17.0 mi away/2,429 ft/314 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/20.9 mi away/2,319 ft/204 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Platte River near Overton, Nebr.06768000
At a river or reservoir gauge/30.1 mi away/2,297 ft/182 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Oxford 6NNWOXFN1
At a cooperative observer's station/5.3 mi away/2,241 ft/126 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Orleans 5.4 NWNE-HN-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.3 mi away/2,038 ft/77 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 17.0 mi from Oxford, Nebraska. From its report of undefined: 3 of its 4 sheets.
From the north northwest (334 degrees) at 5 mph, gusting 7 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
At 2,429 ft above sea level, 8 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 27.39 inHg and the temperature at 50.3 F; the station's altimeter setting of 30.46 inHg means its barometer reads 27.88 inHg; it reports 41.0 F, 9.3 F colder than standard.
On Oct 16 the noon sun stands 40 degrees above the horizon at 40.48 N, and the day is 10 h 57 min long. Level ground there takes 65 per cent of the noon sunlight a surface facing the sun would.
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Oxford 6NNW (OXFN1), 5.3 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.