Topeka (Top)TOP
At an airfield/3.3 mi away/886 ft/12 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Grantville, Kansas
Community in Jefferson County, Kansas* WHAT...Temperatures as low as 33 will result in frost formation. * WHERE...Portions of east central and northeast Kansas. * WHEN...From 1 AM to 9 AM CDT Saturday. * IMPACTS...Frost could harm sensitive outdoor vegetation.
Tender plants should be brought inside or covered to protect them from the cold.
47°
54°/42°
Clear·
Feels like 42°·Gentle breeze 10 mph NW
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for Grantville until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Grantville is 47° and clear at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 42°. The dew point is 37°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 10 mph, gusting to 20 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 54° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 7 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 Thursday, near 80°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:42 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:42 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
18Air quality
66%Humidity
2%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
47feels42
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
5442
20mph
Sat
Oct 17
5932
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6636
13mph
Mon
Oct 19
7144
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7646
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7952
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
8057
10%
47°
54°42°
59°32°
66°36°
71°44°
76°46°
79°52°
80°57°
As of 2:00 AM in Grantville, Kansas.
Air quality
The air at Grantville
Index 18, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Topeka (KS), 9 miles off.
18Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)18Good-
- Ozone16Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)13Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 28, good.
GoodModerate
- 28YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Grantville
0.06 in in the last 24 hours, 2.20 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.06in
- Last 3 days
- 2.20in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 3%
Visibility
How far you can see at Grantville, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Grantville, KansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Grantville, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.6 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Rank513of 1,079
Citizen station FW7360FW7360
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.7 mi away/1,011 ft/137 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Beside a road/8.9 mi away/900 ft/26 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
08S 15E 28Dddd01 Pbpn MW3391907095441901
At a river or reservoir gauge/18.8 mi away/1,083 ft/209 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Ku-NesaS2147
At a soil climate station/20.0 mi away/1,102 ft/228 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Grantville 1.6 NEKS-JF-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.6 mi away/914 ft/40 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Topeka NWSTFOK1
At a cooperative observer's station/3.8 mi away/880 ft/6 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Topeka (Top), drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 3.3 mi from Grantville, Kansas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
48.0 F with a dew point of 37.0 F, 66 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,500 ft up.
The wind
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 12 mph, gusting 20 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 36 mph.
The full report of Topeka (Top), in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Topeka NWS (TFOK1), 3.8 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 01:00. measured daily
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