At an airfield/7.9 mi away/996 ft/26 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Verdon until 8 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 9 degrees cooler: a high of 54° after 63° today.
Now. Verdon is 50° and mostly clear at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 45°. The dew point is 37°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 15 mph, gusting to 31 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 43° by 4 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 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 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 11 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Verdon, Nebraska.
Air quality
Index 15, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, St. Joseph (MO), 48 miles off.
Yesterday measured 48, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.13 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Verdon, NebraskaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Verdon, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.8 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/7.9 mi away/996 ft/26 ft above here
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DawsonNE055
Beside a road/8.6 mi away/998 ft/28 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Little Nemaha River at Auburn, Nebr.06811500
At a river or reservoir gauge/17.7 mi away/890 ft/80 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Shubert 2SWSBTN1
At a cooperative observer's station/3.8 mi away/1,096 ft/126 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Dawson 6.4 SNE-RC-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.6 mi away/1,148 ft/178 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 8.6 mi from Verdon, Nebraska. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:42 PM local time: 3 of its 5 sheets.
53.1 F with a dew point of 36.9 F, 54 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 3,700 ft up.
From the northwest (306 degrees) at 19 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale.
At 998 ft above sea level, 4 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 28.86 inHg and the temperature at 55.4 F; it reports 53.1 F, 2.4 F colder than standard.
The full report of Dawson, in 5 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Shubert 2SW (SBTN1), 3.8 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.