HWY 77 & Agnew Rd.NE046
Beside a road/11.2 mi away/1,183 ft/123 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Valparaiso until 8 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Valparaiso is 48° and mostly clear at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 42°. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 14 mph, gusting to 27 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 41° 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 53°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 31°.
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 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 9 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Valparaiso, Nebraska.
Air quality
Index 17, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Lincoln (NE), 20 miles off.
Yesterday measured 24, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
1.35 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 8 AM.
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The 8 instruments nearest Valparaiso, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.3 miles away.
measured now6 instruments
HWY 77 & Agnew Rd.NE046
Beside a road/11.2 mi away/1,183 ft/123 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station EW7633EW7633
In a volunteer observer's own ground/14.4 mi away/1,441 ft/135 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Oak Creek at Air Park Road at Lincoln, Nebr.06803486
At a river or reservoir gauge/15.7 mi away/1,143 ft/163 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
WahooAHQ
At an airfield/16.6 mi away/1,215 ft/91 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Lincoln 8 ENE94995
At a climate reference station/21.7 mi away/1,189 ft/117 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Rodgers FarmS2001
At a soil climate station/24.6 mi away/1,214 ft/92 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Raymond 4.2 NWNE-LA-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.3 mi away/1,391 ft/85 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Site 1SEWN1
At a cooperative observer's station/18.1 mi away/1,440 ft/134 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 11.2 mi from Valparaiso, Nebraska. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 9:36 PM local time: 3 of its 5 sheets.
51.1 F with a dew point of 38.5 F, 62 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,900 ft up.
From the north northwest (332 degrees) at 19 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale.
At 1,183 ft above sea level, 4 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 28.66 inHg and the temperature at 54.8 F; it reports 51.1 F, 3.7 F colder than standard.
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Site 1 (SEWN1), 18.1 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. 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.