I-335 bridge over Missouri Pacific RRK5005
Beside a road/13.0 mi away/1,242 ft/150 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for Burlingame until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Burlingame is 51° and mostly cloudy at 2 PM. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northwest at 20 mph, gusting to 35 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 53° by 5 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 Thursday, near 81°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:44 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:44 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 PM in Burlingame, Kansas.
Air quality
Index 22, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 PM from its reporting area, Topeka (KS), 20 miles off.
Yesterday measured 28, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 1.10 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 7 AM, lowest 8 miles Sun 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Burlingame, KansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Burlingame, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
I-335 bridge over Missouri Pacific RRK5005
Beside a road/13.0 mi away/1,242 ft/150 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station FW0518FW0518
In a volunteer observer's own ground/15.6 mi away/1,110 ft/18 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Topeka (FOE)FOE
At an airfield/16.7 mi away/1,079 ft/13 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Kansas R Nr Belvue06888350
At a river or reservoir gauge/34.8 mi away/926 ft/166 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Burlingame 3.4 NNEKS-OS-10
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.4 mi away/1,115 ft/23 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Osage CityOSGK1
At a cooperative observer's station/8.1 mi away/1,079 ft/13 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 16.7 mi from Burlingame, Kansas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 4,500 ft; the ceiling is 4,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
52.0 F with a dew point of 36.0 F, 54 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 3,600 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 4,500 ft.
From the north (350 degrees) at 16 mph, gusting 30 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 45 mph.
The full report of Topeka (FOE), in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Osage City (OSGK1), 8.1 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 07:40. 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.