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Beside a road/12.4 mi away/1,353 ft/13 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for Danville until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Danville is 50° and clear at 2 AM. The dew point is 46°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 57° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 81°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:53 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:58 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 14 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Danville, Kansas.
Air quality
Index 24, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Wichita (KS), 42 miles off.
Yesterday measured 18, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.10 in in the last 24 hours, 3.55 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. 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 Danville, KansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Danville, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
K-2 - AnthonyK5KIO
Beside a road/12.4 mi away/1,353 ft/13 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
AnthonyANY
At an airfield/13.5 mi away/1,332 ft/8 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW1859GW1859
In a volunteer observer's own ground/29.0 mi away/1,394 ft/54 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Cowskin Creek AT Wichita at KelloggKEGK1
At a river or reservoir gauge/35.4 mi away/1,325 ft/15 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Harper 1.0 NEKS-HP-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.8 mi away/1,407 ft/67 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
ArgoniaARGK1
At a cooperative observer's station/6.9 mi away/1,247 ft/93 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 13.5 mi from Danville, Kansas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
51.8 F with a dew point of 50.0 F, 94 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 400 ft up.
From the north (350 degrees) at 13 mph, gusting 17 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 17 mph.
The full report of Anthony, 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.