Beside a road/4.3 mi away/1,000 ft/40 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Now. Earlton is 55° and mostly clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 49°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north at 14 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 47° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° 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 week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 80°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:43 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:47 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 12:00 AM in Earlton, Kansas.
Air quality
Index 16, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Chanute (KS), 6 miles off.
Yesterday measured 12, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.54 in in the last 24 hours, 2.50 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Earlton, KansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Earlton, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.3 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Beside a road/4.3 mi away/1,000 ft/40 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
ChanuteCNU
At an airfield/5.8 mi away/1,001 ft/41 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Big Hill Creek AT Big Hill LakeBIGK1
At a river or reservoir gauge/21.9 mi away/876 ft/84 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Chanute 0.5 NKS-NO-15
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.3 mi away/966 ft/6 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Chanute 4ECNAK1
At a cooperative observer's station/7.7 mi away/991 ft/31 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 5.8 mi from Earlton, Kansas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:52 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 2,800 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
56.0 F with a dew point of 49.0 F, 77 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,600 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,800 ft.
From the north (350 degrees) at 16 mph, gusting 24 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 31 mph.
The full report of Chanute, 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.