IolaK88
At an airfield/4.4 mi away/1,005 ft/14 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 19 degrees cooler: a high of 55° after 74° today.
Now. Gas is 56° and overcast at 10 PM. The dew point is 50°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 16 mph, gusting to 26 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 79°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. 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 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 15 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Gas, Kansas.
Air quality
Index 11, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Chanute (KS), 18 miles off.
Yesterday measured 12, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.45 in in the last 24 hours, 2.80 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 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 Gas, KansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 4 instruments nearest Gas, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.3 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
IolaK88
At an airfield/4.4 mi away/1,005 ft/14 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
US-59/169 GarnettK5GAR
Beside a road/24.1 mi away/1,086 ft/67 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Iola 0.8 EKS-AL-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.3 mi away/988 ft/31 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Iola 1 WIOAK1
At a cooperative observer's station/4.3 mi away/948 ft/71 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 4.4 mi from Gas, Kansas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 2,400 ft, overcast at 2,800 ft; the ceiling is 2,400 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
57.2 F with a dew point of 50.0 F, 77 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,700 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,400 ft.
From the north (350 degrees) at 20 mph, gusting 26 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 32 mph.
The full report of Iola, 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.