US-36 @ Delaware R. SabethaK5FVW
Beside a road/11.4 mi away/1,092 ft/263 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Axtell until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Axtell is 50° and mostly cloudy at 1 PM. With the wind it feels like 43°. The dew point is 31°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north at 18 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 51° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 30° by 7 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 78°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. 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 10:42 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 9 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 PM in Axtell, Kansas.
Air quality
Index 9, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 PM from its reporting area, Beatrice (NE), 41 miles off.
Yesterday measured 31, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 AM.
Precipitation
0.01 in in the last 24 hours, 0.24 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sun 7 AM, lowest 5 miles Sat 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Axtell, KansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Axtell, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
US-36 @ Delaware R. SabethaK5FVW
Beside a road/11.4 mi away/1,092 ft/263 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Centralia Lake ScanCTRK1
At a river or reservoir gauge/12.8 mi away/1,302 ft/53 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Centralia LakeS2094
At a soil climate station/12.8 mi away/1,302 ft/53 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
MarysvilleMYZ
At an airfield/19.8 mi away/1,290 ft/65 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station EW0446EW0446
In a volunteer observer's own ground/38.6 mi away/982 ft/373 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
AxtellAXTK1
At a cooperative observer's station/0.3 mi away/1,355 ft/level with here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Axtell 0.3 ESEKS-MS-28
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/1,366 ft/11 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 19.8 mi from Axtell, Kansas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 4,100 ft; the ceiling is 4,100 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
53.6 F with a dew point of 32.0 F, 44 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 4,900 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 4,100 ft.
From the north (360 degrees) at 23 mph, gusting 30 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 37 mph.
The full report of Marysville, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.