At a river or reservoir gauge/19.1 mi away/1,385 ft/395 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Wausa 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 58° after 50° today.
Now. Wausa is 41° and mostly cloudy at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 33°. The dew point is 37°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 18 mph, gusting to 31 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 49° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 2 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 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 29°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:47 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:36 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 4 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Wausa, Nebraska.
Air quality
Index 26, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Santee Sioux Reservation (NE), 28 miles off.
Yesterday measured 15, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.50 in in the last 24 hours, 0.53 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Wausa, NebraskaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Wausa, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At a river or reservoir gauge/19.1 mi away/1,385 ft/395 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
D3-RWIS 81 213.48NE064
Beside a road/25.1 mi away/1,181 ft/599 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW5795GW5795
In a volunteer observer's own ground/31.3 mi away/1,588 ft/192 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
WayneLCG
At an airfield/33.5 mi away/1,419 ft/361 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Bloomfield 3.0 SNE-KX-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.7 mi away/1,743 ft/37 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
BloomfieldBLON1
At a cooperative observer's station/8.6 mi away/1,739 ft/41 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 19.1 mi from Wausa, Nebraska. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:59 PM local time: 3 of its 3 sheets.
At 1,385 ft above sea level, 5 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 28.45 inHg and the temperature at 54.1 F.
On Oct 16 the noon sun stands 38 degrees above the horizon at 42.62 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, 1,385 ft above sea level. Its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:59 PM 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.