Citizen station FW8685FW8685
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.3 mi away/1,276 ft/67 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 15 degrees cooler: a high of 56° after 71° today.
Now. Douglass is 54° and mostly clear at 11 PM. The dew point is 49°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 43° 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 81°, 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 34°.
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 Douglass, Kansas.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Wichita (KS), 21 miles off.
Yesterday measured 51, moderate.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.11 in in the last 24 hours, 4.20 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 Douglass, KansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Douglass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Citizen station FW8685FW8685
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.3 mi away/1,276 ft/67 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Augusta3AU
At an airfield/11.2 mi away/1,331 ft/122 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
I-35 bridge over Whitewater RiverK5002
Beside a road/16.6 mi away/1,250 ft/41 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Cowskin Creek AT Wichita at KelloggKEGK1
At a river or reservoir gauge/26.5 mi away/1,325 ft/116 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
AbramsS2092
At a soil climate station/27.0 mi away/1,194 ft/15 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Douglass 0.5 WNWKS-BU-42
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.5 mi away/1,205 ft/4 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Smileyberg 4SWSMBK1
At a cooperative observer's station/4.7 mi away/1,220 ft/11 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 11.2 mi from Douglass, 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.
51.8 F with a dew point of 48.2 F, 87 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 800 ft up.
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 12 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 28 mph.
The full report of Augusta, 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.