Lakin36K
At an airfield/6.7 mi away/3,064 ft/93 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Deerfield until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 10 degrees warmer: a high of 66° after 56° today.
Now. Deerfield is 45° and mostly clear at 11 AM. With the wind it feels like 36°. The dew point is 29°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north at 22 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 53° by 5 PM. Tonight falls to about 30° by 5 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. 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 Wednesday, near 81°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 66°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is Sunday, with wind to 20 mph. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:06 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:09 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 13 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 AM in Deerfield, Kansas.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.06 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 10 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 7 AM, lowest 8 miles Sat 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Deerfield, KansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Deerfield, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Lakin36K
At an airfield/6.7 mi away/3,064 ft/93 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW4477GW4477
In a volunteer observer's own ground/15.3 mi away/2,886 ft/85 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
US-50 @ K-156 bridge Garden CityKS010
Beside a road/16.1 mi away/2,841 ft/130 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Arkansas River At KendallKENK1
At a river or reservoir gauge/22.9 mi away/3,140 ft/169 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Deerfield 0.6 NEKS-KE-17
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.6 mi away/2,984 ft/13 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
LakinLAKK1
At a cooperative observer's station/6.9 mi away/3,009 ft/38 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 6.7 mi from Deerfield, Kansas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 11:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 3,900 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
46.4 F with a dew point of 28.4 F, 49 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 4,100 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 3,900 ft.
From the north (350 degrees) at 25 mph: force 6, a strong breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 32 mph.
The full report of Lakin, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Lakin (LAKK1), 6.9 miles from here, read 12 Oct, 07:00. 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.