Arcadia HWY 70NE052
Beside a road/19.0 mi away/2,300 ft/17 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Sargent 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 61° after 52° today.
Now. Sargent is 40° and overcast at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 31°. The dew point is 31°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 18 mph, gusting to 37 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 51° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 1 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 76°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 61°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 28°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:55 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:48 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 6 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Sargent, Nebraska.
Precipitation
0.09 in in the last 24 hours, 0.20 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 10 miles Fri 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Sargent, NebraskaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Sargent, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 15.4 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Arcadia HWY 70NE052
Beside a road/19.0 mi away/2,300 ft/17 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/19.7 mi away/2,524 ft/207 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Middle Loup River AT DunningDNGN1
At a river or reservoir gauge/39.9 mi away/2,608 ft/291 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
BurwellBWLN1
At a cooperative observer's station/15.4 mi away/2,175 ft/142 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Burwell 8.6 NWNE-GD-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/15.7 mi away/2,311 ft/6 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 39.9 mi from Sargent, Nebraska. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:45 AM local time: 3 of its 3 sheets.
At 2,608 ft above sea level, 9 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 27.21 inHg and the temperature at 49.7 F; it reports 43.9 F, 5.8 F colder than standard.
On Oct 16 the noon sun stands 39 degrees above the horizon at 41.83 N, and the day is 10 h 54 min long. Level ground there takes 63 per cent of the noon sunlight a surface facing the sun would.
A data collection platform, 2,608 ft above sea level. Its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:45 AM local time is written on the sensors that made it.
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Burwell (BWLN1), 15.4 miles from here, read 15 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.