At an airfield/16.8 mi away/2,062 ft/130 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Scotia 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 63° after 54° today.
Now. Scotia is 42° and overcast at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 34°. The dew point is 35°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 18 mph, gusting to 38 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 54° by 3 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 77°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 63°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 29°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:52 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 5 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Scotia, Nebraska.
Precipitation
0.27 in in the last 24 hours, 0.46 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Scotia, NebraskaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Scotia, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/16.8 mi away/2,062 ft/130 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Arcadia HWY 70NE052
Beside a road/26.8 mi away/2,300 ft/368 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station CW6004CW6004
In a volunteer observer's own ground/29.4 mi away/1,772 ft/160 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Cedar River near Fullerton, Nebr.06792000
At a river or reservoir gauge/36.6 mi away/1,638 ft/294 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
North LoupNRLN1
At a cooperative observer's station/4.2 mi away/1,965 ft/33 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
St. Paul 0.5 NWNE-HD-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/21.1 mi away/1,814 ft/118 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 29.4 mi from Scotia, Nebraska. From its report of undefined: 3 of its 4 sheets.
From the south (183 degrees) at 2 mph, gusting 9 mph: force 1, a light air on the Beaufort scale.
At 1,772 ft above sea level, 6 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 28.05 inHg and the temperature at 52.7 F; the station's altimeter setting of 30.34 inHg means its barometer reads 28.45 inHg; it reports 46.0 F, 6.7 F colder than standard.
On Oct 16 the noon sun stands 39 degrees above the horizon at 41.56 N, and the day is 10 h 55 min long. Level ground there takes 63 per cent of the noon sunlight a surface facing the sun would.
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Snow on the ground
Measured at North Loup (NRLN1), 4.2 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 06:00. 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.