US-54 - PrattK5PTT
Beside a road/9.5 mi away/1,860 ft/119 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Coats until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 9 degrees cooler: a high of 56° after 65° today.
Now. Coats is 54° and clear at 9 PM. The dew point is 49°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north at 15 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 40° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 80°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 23 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 31°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% lit, and sets at 10:07 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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 16 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Coats, Kansas.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 1.10 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 9 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Coats, KansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 4 instruments nearest Coats, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.8 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
US-54 - PrattK5PTT
Beside a road/9.5 mi away/1,860 ft/119 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
PrattPTT
At an airfield/13.8 mi away/1,952 ft/27 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Coats 1.7 SWKS-PR-14
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.8 mi away/1,963 ft/16 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Pratt Agtap #2ZTBK1
At a cooperative observer's station/7.8 mi away/1,923 ft/56 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 13.8 mi from Coats, Kansas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 9:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
52.7 F with a dew point of 49.0 F, 87 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 900 ft up.
From the north (350 degrees) at 14 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 36 mph.
The full report of Pratt, 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.