At an airfield/4.6 mi away/1,371 ft/84 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 14 degrees cooler: a high of 56° after 70° today.
Now. Derby is 55° and mostly clear at 11 PM. The dew point is 49°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north at 14 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 44° 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 25 mph. Frost is possible Saturday morning, a low of 35°.
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 south-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 11:00 PM in Derby, Kansas.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Wichita (KS), 10 miles off.
Yesterday measured 51, moderate.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.09 in in the last 24 hours, 3.15 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 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 Derby, KansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Derby, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
At an airfield/4.6 mi away/1,371 ft/84 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW2640DW2640
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.5 mi away/1,282 ft/5 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
I-135 @ 17th St.K5WSU
Beside a road/11.5 mi away/1,322 ft/35 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Cowskin Creek AT Wichita at KelloggKEGK1
At a river or reservoir gauge/13.3 mi away/1,325 ft/38 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
AbramsS2092
At a soil climate station/30.9 mi away/1,194 ft/93 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Derby 0.9 NNEKS-SG-203
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.4 mi away/1,302 ft/15 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Haysville 3SEHSEK1
At a cooperative observer's station/4.0 mi away/1,240 ft/47 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 4.6 mi from Derby, Kansas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
54.7 F with a dew point of 49.0 F, 81 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,300 ft up.
From the north (10 degrees) at 13 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 35 mph.
The full report of Mcconnell_AFB, 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.