Beside a road/2.2 mi away/3,604 ft/33 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Edson, Kansas
Community in Sherman County, KansasFreeze Warning, in full · Every severe alert
* WHAT...For the Freeze Warning, sub-freezing temperatures as low as 31 expected. For the Freeze Watch, sub-freezing temperatures as low as 28 possible. * WHERE...In Kansas, Cheyenne KS, Sherman, Greeley, and Wallace Counties. In Nebraska, Dundy County. * WHEN...For the Freeze Warning, until 10 AM CDT /9 AM MDT/ Friday. For the Freeze Watch, from late Friday night through Saturday morning. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
Drain in-ground sprinkler systems and cover above ground pipes. Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
38°
55°/32°
Clear·
Feels like 28°·Moderate breeze 16 mph NNW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Edson until 9 AM today. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 11 degrees warmer: a high of 66° after 55° today.
Now. Edson is 38° and clear at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 28°. The dew point is 22°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 16 mph, gusting to 29 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 52° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° by 3 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 82°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 66°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 28°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:06 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:06 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 10 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
12Air quality
54%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
38feels28
16mph
Today
Oct 16
5532
22mph
Sat
Oct 17
6628
20mph
Sun
Oct 18
7137
16mph
Mon
Oct 19
7041
clear day
Tue
Oct 20
7842
14mph
Wed
Oct 21
8252
13mph
Thu
Oct 22
7954
14%
19mph
38°
55°32°
66°28°
71°37°
70°41°
78°42°
82°52°
79°54°
As of 2:00 AM in Edson, Kansas.
Air quality
The air at Edson
Index 12, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Goodland (KS), 9 miles off.
12Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)12Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)10Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 13, good.
GoodModerate
- 13YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Edson
None in the last 24 hours; 0.39 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.39in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Edson, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Edson, KansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Edson, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.2 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Rank-
GoodlandGLD
At an airfield/8.3 mi away/3,645 ft/74 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station CW2751CW2751
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.4 mi away/3,673 ft/102 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Goodland NWSGDNK1
At a cooperative observer's station/8.3 mi away/3,643 ft/72 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Goodland 0.5 ENEKS-SH-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.4 mi away/3,681 ft/110 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The weather at Goodland, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 8.3 mi from Edson, Kansas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
37.0 F with a dew point of 28.0 F, 70 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,000 ft up.
The wind
From the north (360 degrees) at 13 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 24 mph.
The full report of Goodland, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
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The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.