At a river or reservoir gauge/18.8 mi away/1,385 ft/302 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Plainview, Nebraska
City in Pierce County, Nebraska* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 28 expected. * WHERE...Portions of southwest and west central Iowa and east central, northeast, and southeast Nebraska. * WHEN...From 1 AM to 9 AM CDT Saturday. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold. To prevent water pipes from freezing; wrap or drain or allow them to drip slowly.
45°
53°/38°
Clear·
Feels like 38°·Moderate breeze 17 mph N
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Plainview until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Plainview is 45° and clear at 1 PM. With the wind it feels like 38°. The dew point is 30°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north at 17 mph, gusting to 28 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 49° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 3 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 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:48 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% 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 4 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
4UV Moderate
26Air quality
46%Humidity
11%Cloud
Now
1:00 PM
45feels38
17mph
Today
Oct 16
5338
26mph
Sat
Oct 17
5832
20mph
Sun
Oct 18
6339
18mph
Mon
Oct 19
6240
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6743
12mph
Wed
Oct 21
7251
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7452
overcast
45°
53°38°
58°32°
63°39°
62°40°
67°43°
72°51°
74°52°
As of 1:00 PM in Plainview, Nebraska.
Air quality
The air at Plainview
Index 26, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 PM from its reporting area, Santee Sioux Reservation (NE), 33 miles off.
26Good
- Ozone26Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 24, good.
GoodModerate
- 24YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Plainview
0.09 in in the last 24 hours, 0.46 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.09in
- Last 3 days
- 0.46in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 20%
Visibility
How far you can see at Plainview, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 7 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Plainview, NebraskaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Plainview, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 15.9 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Rank374of 681
Citizen station CW4592CW4592
In a volunteer observer's own ground/19.7 mi away/1,770 ft/83 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Neligh4V9
At an airfield/21.0 mi away/1,739 ft/52 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Clearwater on HWY 275 @ MP 32.77NE019
Beside a road/22.7 mi away/1,774 ft/87 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Bloomfield 3.0 SNE-KX-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/15.9 mi away/1,743 ft/56 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Royal 3 NEROYN1
At a cooperative observer's station/16.0 mi away/1,798 ft/111 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Bazile Creek AT Center, drawn
The nearest instrument reporting now, 18.8 mi from Plainview, Nebraska. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:00 PM local time: 3 of its 3 sheets.
The column
At 1,385 ft above sea level, 5 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 28.45 inHg and the temperature at 54.1 F.
The sun
On Oct 16 the noon sun stands 38 degrees above the horizon at 42.62 N, and the day is 10 h 52 min long. Level ground there takes 62 per cent of the noon sunlight a surface facing the sun would.
The instrument
A data collection platform, 1,385 ft above sea level. Its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:00 PM local time is written on the sensors that made it.
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Nebraska
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Plainview
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.