PRAIRIE DOG CREEK 4 E Clayton 4eCLNK1
At a river or reservoir gauge/12.1 mi away/2,362 ft/94 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Lenora, Kansas
City in Norton County, Kansas* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 29 possible. * WHERE...Portions of northwest and west central Kansas and southwest Nebraska. * WHEN...From late Friday night through Saturday morning. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
44°
56°/38°
Clear·
Feels like 37°·Moderate breeze 15 mph NNW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Lenora until 10 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Lenora is 44° and clear at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 37°. The dew point is 33°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 15 mph, gusting to 26 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 53° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 4 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 63°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:58 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
21Air quality
60%Humidity
1%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
44feels37
15mph
Today
Oct 16
5638
21mph
Sat
Oct 17
6331
16mph
Sun
Oct 18
7040
16mph
Mon
Oct 19
7044
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7745
12mph
Wed
Oct 21
8255
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
8058
26%
13mph
44°
56°38°
63°31°
70°40°
70°44°
77°45°
82°55°
80°58°
As of 1:00 AM in Lenora, Kansas.
Air quality
The air at Lenora
Index 21, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Cedar Bluff (KS), 59 miles off.
21Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)15Good-
- Ozone21Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)12Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 23, good.
GoodModerate
- 23YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Lenora
0.19 in in the last 24 hours, 0.41 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.19in
- Last 3 days
- 0.41in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 46%
Visibility
How far you can see at Lenora, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Lenora, KansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Lenora, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Rank606of 1,079
K-383 - 2 mi. SW of JenningsK5HJN
Beside a road/15.9 mi away/2,522 ft/254 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
NortonNRN
At an airfield/17.6 mi away/2,362 ft/94 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station EW3001EW3001
In a volunteer observer's own ground/22.7 mi away/2,011 ft/257 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
PhillipsburgS2093
At a soil climate station/37.8 mi away/1,986 ft/282 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Lenora CitySN0
At a cooperative observer's station/0.1 mi away/2,287 ft/19 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Hill City 8.5 NNEKS-GH-12
In a volunteer observer's own ground/14.0 mi away/2,303 ft/35 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The weather at Norton, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 17.6 mi from Lenora, Kansas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
46.4 F with a dew point of 32.0 F, 57 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 3,300 ft up.
The wind
From the north (350 degrees) at 14 mph, gusting 21 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 28 mph.
The full report of Norton, 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.