Clay Center HWY 14 & HWY 74NE049
Beside a road/16.3 mi away/1,757 ft/78 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Sutton until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Sutton is 45° and clear at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 38°. The dew point is 35°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 15 mph, gusting to 27 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 79°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 30°.
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 sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 10 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Sutton, Nebraska.
Air quality
Index 32, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Beatrice (NE), 59 miles off.
Yesterday measured 32, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.96 in in the last 24 hours, 0.99 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Sutton, NebraskaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Sutton, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 8.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Clay Center HWY 14 & HWY 74NE049
Beside a road/16.3 mi away/1,757 ft/78 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
AuroraAUH
At an airfield/21.1 mi away/1,793 ft/114 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Little Blue River 4 SE DeweeseDWEN1
At a river or reservoir gauge/21.6 mi away/1,693 ft/14 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station DW5481DW5481
In a volunteer observer's own ground/27.9 mi away/1,916 ft/237 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Harvard 4.5 ESENE-CY-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.3 mi away/1,761 ft/82 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Clay CenterCLYN1
At a cooperative observer's station/8.3 mi away/1,742 ft/63 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 21.6 mi from Sutton, Nebraska. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:15 PM 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 50.5 F, 2.5 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 15, 2026, 10:15 PM local time is written on the sensors that made it.
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Clay Center (CLYN1), 8.3 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.