I-70 - East Wakeeney InterchangeK5WKY
Beside a road/12.7 mi away/2,441 ft/139 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Collyer until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Collyer is 50° and mostly clear at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 45°. The dew point is 35°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 37° by 8 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 82°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 30°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 13 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Collyer, Kansas.
Air quality
Index 15, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Cedar Bluff (KS), 27 miles off.
Yesterday measured 23, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.34 in in the last 24 hours, 0.50 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. 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 Collyer, KansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 4 instruments nearest Collyer, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.7 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
I-70 - East Wakeeney InterchangeK5WKY
Beside a road/12.7 mi away/2,441 ft/139 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Hill_CityHLC
At an airfield/27.9 mi away/2,224 ft/356 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Collyer 1.6 SSEKS-TR-53
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.7 mi away/2,578 ft/2 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
QuinterQTRK1
At a cooperative observer's station/6.5 mi away/2,687 ft/107 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 27.9 mi from Collyer, Kansas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 9:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 7,500 ft; the ceiling is 7,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
52.0 F with a dew point of 35.0 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; the lowest cloud reported is at 7,500 ft.
From the north (10 degrees) at 16 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 39 mph.
The full report of Hill_City, 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.