Newport on HWY 20 @ MP 273NE030
Beside a road/7.4 mi away/2,211 ft/49 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Stuart until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 11 degrees warmer: a high of 59° after 48° today.
Now. Stuart is 40° and overcast at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 33°. The dew point is 33°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 13 mph, gusting to 32 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 48° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° by 12 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 Wednesday, near 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:53 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:43 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 3 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Stuart, Nebraska.
Air quality
Index 26, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Santee Sioux Reservation (NE), 67 miles off.
Yesterday measured 15, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.12 in in the last 24 hours, 0.15 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 7 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Stuart, NebraskaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 4 instruments nearest Stuart, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
Newport on HWY 20 @ MP 273NE030
Beside a road/7.4 mi away/2,211 ft/49 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
O NeillONL
At an airfield/24.7 mi away/2,024 ft/138 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Stuart 0.4 NNWNE-HT-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.4 mi away/2,172 ft/10 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
AtkinsonATKN1
At a cooperative observer's station/9.5 mi away/2,110 ft/52 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 7.4 mi from Stuart, Nebraska. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:23 AM local time: 3 of its 5 sheets.
37.9 F with a dew point of 34.4 F, 87 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 800 ft up.
Calm.
At 2,211 ft above sea level, 8 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 27.61 inHg and the temperature at 51.1 F; it reports 37.9 F, 13.2 F colder than standard.
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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.