Niobrara River above Soldier Creek near NiobraraNSBN1
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.2 mi away/1,329 ft/55 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Verdigre until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 11 degrees warmer: a high of 64° after 53° today.
Now. Verdigre is 45° and overcast at 4 AM. With the wind it feels like 37°. The dew point is 40°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northwest at 22 mph, gusting to 38 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 53° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° by 4 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 76°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 64°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:48 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 4:00 AM in Verdigre, Nebraska.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Santee Sioux Reservation (NE), 19 miles off.
Yesterday measured 24, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.25 in in the last 24 hours, 0.31 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Verdigre, NebraskaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Verdigre, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 8.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Niobrara River above Soldier Creek near NiobraraNSBN1
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.2 mi away/1,329 ft/55 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station CW9774CW9774
In a volunteer observer's own ground/26.7 mi away/1,931 ft/547 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Clearwater on HWY 275 @ MP 32.77NE019
Beside a road/30.1 mi away/1,774 ft/390 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Neligh4V9
At an airfield/33.5 mi away/1,739 ft/355 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Verdel 6SseVDLN1
At a cooperative observer's station/12.4 mi away/1,335 ft/49 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Center 4.9 ENENE-KX-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.0 mi away/1,640 ft/256 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 8.2 mi from Verdigre, Nebraska. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:15 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, 4:15 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.