Beside a road/31.6 mi away/2,421 ft/444 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Ashland until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Ashland is 50° and partly cloudy at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 47°. The dew point is 40°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 56° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 41° by 11 PM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 82°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 61°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:01 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:06 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 14 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Ashland, Kansas.
Air quality
Index 15, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Woodward (OK), 73 miles off.
Highest 70, moderate, Tue Oct 20, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 21, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.66 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 9 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Ashland, KansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 3 instruments nearest Ashland, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now1 instrument
Beside a road/31.6 mi away/2,421 ft/444 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Ashland 0.3 NNWKS-CA-20
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.2 mi away/1,993 ft/16 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
AshlandASHK1
At a cooperative observer's station/0.6 mi away/1,985 ft/8 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Ashland (ASHK1), 0.6 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.