US-81 @ Republican R. ConcordiaK5CNC
Beside a road/19.4 mi away/1,348 ft/155 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Courtland until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Courtland is 46° and clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 40°. The dew point is 33°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 14 mph, gusting to 25 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 52° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° by 6 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 Wednesday, near 80°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:51 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 9 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Courtland, Kansas.
Air quality
Index 43, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Beatrice (NE), 67 miles off.
Yesterday measured 32, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.76 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 3 miles Sat 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Courtland, KansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Courtland, 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
US-81 @ Republican R. ConcordiaK5CNC
Beside a road/19.4 mi away/1,348 ft/155 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
ConcordiaCNK
At an airfield/20.8 mi away/1,483 ft/20 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Concordia 2SSECDAK1
At a river or reservoir gauge/21.2 mi away/1,539 ft/36 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Courtland 0.1 SSEKS-RP-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.1 mi away/1,497 ft/6 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
CourtlandCTLK1
At a cooperative observer's station/0.2 mi away/1,516 ft/13 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 20.8 mi from Courtland, Kansas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
48.0 F with a dew point of 33.0 F, 56 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 3,400 ft up.
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 16 mph, gusting 32 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 39 mph.
The full report of Concordia, 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.