At a river or reservoir gauge/17.8 mi away/1,316 ft/137 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for Burdick until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Burdick is 50° and partly cloudy at 1 PM. With the wind it feels like 43°. The dew point is 37°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north at 19 mph, gusting to 31 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 51° 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 week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 82°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:48 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:49 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 12 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 PM in Burdick, Kansas.
Air quality
Index 22, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 PM from its reporting area, Wichita (KS), 64 miles off.
Yesterday measured 21, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.74 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sun 7 AM, lowest 8 miles Sun 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Burdick, KansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Burdick, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.1 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
At a river or reservoir gauge/17.8 mi away/1,316 ft/137 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW1204FW1204
In a volunteer observer's own ground/28.3 mi away/1,321 ft/132 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Beside a road/32.5 mi away/1,382 ft/71 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Fort RileyFRI
At an airfield/34.1 mi away/1,065 ft/388 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Manhattan 6 SSW53974
At a climate reference station/39.4 mi away/1,137 ft/316 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Herington 6.6 SSEKS-MR-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.1 mi away/1,465 ft/12 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
LincolnvilleLNCK1
At a cooperative observer's station/7.9 mi away/1,421 ft/32 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 34.1 mi from Burdick, Kansas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 4,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
55.4 F with a dew point of 35.0 F, 46 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 4,600 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 4,500 ft.
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 22 mph, gusting 30 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 33 mph.
The full report of Fort Riley, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Lincolnville (LNCK1), 7.9 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 09:00. 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.