At a river or reservoir gauge/15.5 mi away/1,385 ft/146 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Santee until 8 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 10 degrees cooler: a high of 50° after 60° today.
Now. Santee is 44° and mostly cloudy at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 36°. The dew point is 35°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the northwest at 20 mph, gusting to 34 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 40° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 50°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 24 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 32°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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 day is 11 hours 5 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Santee, Nebraska.
Air quality
Index 27, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Santee Sioux Reservation (NE), 1 mile off.
Yesterday measured 15, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.48 in in the last 24 hours, 0.50 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 10 miles Fri 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Santee, NebraskaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 4 instruments nearest Santee, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 14.6 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
At a river or reservoir gauge/15.5 mi away/1,385 ft/146 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
D3-RWIS 81 213.48NE064
Beside a road/23.0 mi away/1,181 ft/58 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Center 4.9 ENENE-KX-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/14.6 mi away/1,640 ft/401 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
BloomfieldBLON1
At a cooperative observer's station/20.0 mi away/1,739 ft/500 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 15.5 mi from Santee, Nebraska. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:00 PM local time: 3 of its 3 sheets.
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.
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.
A data collection platform, 1,385 ft above sea level. Its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:00 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.