D3-RWIS 35 48.65NE063
Beside a road/8.1 mi away/1,463 ft/68 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Thurston until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 8 degrees warmer: a high of 61° after 53° today.
Now. Thurston is 42° and mostly cloudy at 7 AM. With the wind it feels like 32°. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northwest at 24 mph, gusting to 40 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 52° by 4 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 76°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 61°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:44 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:34 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 7:00 AM in Thurston, Nebraska.
Air quality
Index 17, good, led by fine particles. Read at 7 AM from its reporting area, WTN2 (NE), 3 miles off.
Yesterday measured 35, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.33 in in the last 24 hours, 0.50 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 6 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 10 miles Sat 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Thurston, NebraskaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Thurston, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
D3-RWIS 35 48.65NE063
Beside a road/8.1 mi away/1,463 ft/68 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
South Omaha Creek AT WalthillWHLN1
At a river or reservoir gauge/11.4 mi away/1,204 ft/191 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
WayneLCG
At an airfield/15.0 mi away/1,419 ft/24 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW5795GW5795
In a volunteer observer's own ground/38.4 mi away/1,588 ft/193 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Wakefield 5.1 SSENE-TN-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.4 mi away/1,428 ft/33 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
EmersonEMRN1
At a cooperative observer's station/7.2 mi away/1,444 ft/49 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 8.1 mi from Thurston, Nebraska. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 6:44 AM local time: 3 of its 4 sheets.
From the northwest (315 degrees) at 27 mph: force 6, a strong breeze on the Beaufort scale.
At 1,463 ft above sea level, 5 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 28.37 inHg and the temperature at 53.8 F.
On Oct 16 the noon sun stands 39 degrees above the horizon at 42.29 N, and the day is 10 h 53 min long. Level ground there takes 62 per cent of the noon sunlight a surface facing the sun would.
The full report of D3-RWIS 35 48.65, in 4 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Emerson (EMRN1), 7.2 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 09:00. 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.