In a volunteer observer's own ground/17.9 mi away/1,294 ft/63 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for West Point until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. West Point is 45° and mostly cloudy at 11 AM. With the wind it feels like 37°. The dew point is 34°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north at 21 mph, gusting to 33 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° by 4 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 Thursday, near 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:44 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 5 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 AM in West Point, Nebraska.
Air quality
Index 12, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 AM from its reporting area, WTN2 (NE), 26 miles off.
Yesterday measured 35, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 AM.
Precipitation
0.26 in in the last 24 hours, 0.69 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 10 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 7 AM, lowest 9 miles Sat 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over West Point, NebraskaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest West Point, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
In a volunteer observer's own ground/17.9 mi away/1,294 ft/63 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Maple Creek 4 NW NickersonNKRN1
At a river or reservoir gauge/21.1 mi away/1,237 ft/120 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
TekamahTQE
At an airfield/27.8 mi away/1,013 ft/344 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
D3-RWIS 35 48.65NE063
Beside a road/31.3 mi away/1,463 ft/106 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
West PointWPTN1
At a cooperative observer's station/0.6 mi away/1,306 ft/51 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
West Point 5.2 WSWNE-CM-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.2 mi away/1,421 ft/64 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 17.9 mi from West Point, Nebraska. From its report of undefined: 3 of its 3 sheets.
At 1,294 ft above sea level, 5 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 28.55 inHg and the temperature at 54.4 F; the station's altimeter setting of 30.57 inHg means its barometer reads 29.17 inHg.
On Oct 16 the noon sun stands 39 degrees above the horizon at 41.61 N, and the day is 10 h 55 min long. Level ground there takes 63 per cent of the noon sunlight a surface facing the sun would.
A weather instrument, 1,294 ft above sea level. Its latest report is written on the sensors that made it.
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Snow on the ground
Measured at West Point (WPTN1), 0.6 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 08:00. 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.