Clay Center HWY 14 & HWY 74NE049
Beside a road/13.7 mi away/1,757 ft/6 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Saronville until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Saronville is 43° and mostly cloudy at 4 AM. With the wind it feels like 35°. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 15 mph, gusting to 27 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 54° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 7 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 Thursday, near 79°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 62°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:50 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:46 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 7 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in Saronville, Nebraska.
Air quality
Index 36, good, led by fine particles. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Beatrice (NE), 63 miles off.
Yesterday measured 31, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.65 in in the last 24 hours, 0.87 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 9 miles Sat 3 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Saronville, NebraskaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Saronville, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Clay Center HWY 14 & HWY 74NE049
Beside a road/13.7 mi away/1,757 ft/6 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Little Blue River 4 SE DeweeseDWEN1
At a river or reservoir gauge/19.5 mi away/1,693 ft/58 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
AuroraAUH
At an airfield/20.4 mi away/1,793 ft/42 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW5481DW5481
In a volunteer observer's own ground/23.8 mi away/1,916 ft/165 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Harvard 4.5 ESENE-CY-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.0 mi away/1,761 ft/10 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Clay CenterCLYN1
At a cooperative observer's station/6.8 mi away/1,742 ft/9 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 19.5 mi from Saronville, Nebraska. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:15 AM local time: 3 of its 3 sheets.
At 1,693 ft above sea level, 6 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 28.14 inHg and the temperature at 53.0 F; it reports 48.6 F, 4.3 F colder than standard.
On Oct 16 the noon sun stands 41 degrees above the horizon at 40.34 N, and the day is 10 h 58 min long. Level ground there takes 65 per cent of the noon sunlight a surface facing the sun would.
A data collection platform, 1,693 ft above sea level. Its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:15 AM local time is written on the sensors that made it.
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Clay Center (CLYN1), 6.8 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. 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.