Citizen station DW9948DW9948
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.8 mi away/944 ft/12 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Now. Frontenac is 55° and mostly cloudy at 12 AM. The dew point is 50°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north at 9 mph, gusting to 21 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 48° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 37° 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 Thursday, near 82°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:40 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:44 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Frontenac, Kansas.
Air quality
Index 9, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Alba (MO), 21 miles off.
Yesterday measured 14, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.66 in in the last 24 hours, 2.20 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 Frontenac, KansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Frontenac, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.8 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Citizen station DW9948DW9948
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.8 mi away/944 ft/12 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
PittsburgPTS
At an airfield/2.0 mi away/950 ft/6 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
KS Baxter Springs K-166 @ US-400K5BXS
Beside a road/29.6 mi away/863 ft/93 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Pittsburg 1.0 ESEKS-CR-18
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.0 mi away/917 ft/39 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
PittsburgPTSK1
At a cooperative observer's station/4.3 mi away/906 ft/50 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 2.0 mi from Frontenac, Kansas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:35 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 2,300 ft, overcast at 2,800 ft; the ceiling is 2,300 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
55.4 F with a dew point of 51.8 F, 88 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 800 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,300 ft.
From the north (350 degrees) at 8 mph, gusting 16 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 23 mph.
The full report of Pittsburg, 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.