Beside a road/11.3 mi away/2,421 ft/16 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Bucklin until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Bucklin is 47° and clear at 11 AM. With the wind it feels like 39°. The dew point is 31°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north at 23 mph, gusting to 36 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 53° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° 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 sun is strong around midday: UV index 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 83°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 62°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is Sunday, with wind to 22 mph. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:04 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 11:00 AM in Bucklin, Kansas.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.38 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 10 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sun 7 AM, lowest 8 miles Sun 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Bucklin, KansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Bucklin, 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 now3 instruments
Beside a road/11.3 mi away/2,421 ft/16 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW3433GW3433
In a volunteer observer's own ground/22.0 mi away/2,463 ft/58 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Dodge CityDDC
At an airfield/23.4 mi away/2,592 ft/187 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Bucklin 0.1 SEKS-FO-72
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.1 mi away/2,419 ft/14 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
BucklinBUCK1
At a cooperative observer's station/0.3 mi away/2,408 ft/3 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 23.4 mi from Bucklin, Kansas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 10:52 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 9 mi.
48.0 F with a dew point of 31.0 F, 52 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 3,900 ft up.
From the north (350 degrees) at 25 mph, gusting 41 mph: force 6, a strong breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 44 mph.
The full report of Dodge City, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Bucklin (BUCK1), 0.3 miles from here, read 16 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.