I-70 @ MP 229 Lincoln Co.K5ELW
Beside a road/24.1 mi away/1,737 ft/418 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Barnard until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Barnard is 47° and clear at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 41°. The dew point is 37°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 13 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 53° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° 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 Wednesday, near 81°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is Sunday, with wind to 20 mph. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:52 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:52 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 10 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Barnard, Kansas.
Precipitation
0.33 in in the last 24 hours, 0.59 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Barnard, KansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Barnard, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
I-70 @ MP 229 Lincoln Co.K5ELW
Beside a road/24.1 mi away/1,737 ft/418 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Mulberry Creek 3 W SalinaSLNK1
At a river or reservoir gauge/31.3 mi away/1,247 ft/72 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Ellsworth9K7
At an airfield/31.9 mi away/1,604 ft/285 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station KKSNEWCA7KKSNEWCA7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/36.2 mi away/1,192 ft/127 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
BarnardBNDK1
At a cooperative observer's station/0.1 mi away/1,319 ft/level with here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Barnard 1.1 SSEKS-LC-9
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.1 mi away/1,345 ft/26 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 31.9 mi from Barnard, Kansas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
46.4 F with a dew point of 39.2 F, 76 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,600 ft up.
From the north (360 degrees) at 17 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 30 mph.
The full report of Ellsworth, 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.