Niobrara River above Soldier Creek near NiobraraNSBN1
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.7 mi away/1,329 ft/37 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Verdel until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 10 degrees warmer: a high of 63° after 53° today.
Now. Verdel is 44° and mostly clear at 11 AM. With the wind it feels like 36°. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northwest at 20 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 37° by 12 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 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 63°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:49 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:38 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 11:00 AM in Verdel, Nebraska.
Air quality
Index 24, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 AM from its reporting area, Santee Sioux Reservation (NE), 17 miles off.
Yesterday measured 24, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 AM.
Precipitation
0.09 in in the last 24 hours, 0.27 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 10 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Verdel, NebraskaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Verdel, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.6 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Niobrara River above Soldier Creek near NiobraraNSBN1
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.7 mi away/1,329 ft/37 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
O NeillONL
At an airfield/34.5 mi away/2,024 ft/732 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station CW9774CW9774
In a volunteer observer's own ground/39.6 mi away/1,931 ft/639 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Verdel 6SseVDLN1
At a cooperative observer's station/6.6 mi away/1,335 ft/43 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Center 4.9 ENENE-KX-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/24.1 mi away/1,640 ft/348 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 8.7 mi from Verdel, Nebraska. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 10:15 AM local time: 3 of its 3 sheets.
At 1,329 ft above sea level, 5 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 28.51 inHg and the temperature at 54.3 F.
On Oct 16 the noon sun stands 38 degrees above the horizon at 42.70 N, and the day is 10 h 52 min long. Level ground there takes 62 per cent of the noon sunlight a surface facing the sun would.
A data collection platform, 1,329 ft above sea level. Its report of Oct 16, 2026, 10:15 AM local time is written on the sensors that made it.
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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.