Cottonwood River AT Marion ReservoirMLBK1
At a reservoir/14.7 mi away/1,345 ft/148 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Lost Springs, Kansas
City in Marion County, Kansas* WHAT...Temperatures as low as 33 will result in frost formation. * WHERE...Portions of central, east central, south central, and southeast Kansas. * WHEN...From 1 AM to 9 AM CDT Saturday. * IMPACTS...Frost could harm sensitive outdoor vegetation. Sensitive outdoor plants may be killed if left uncovered.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
43°
55°/41°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 35°·Moderate breeze 16 mph NW
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for Lost Springs until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Lost Springs is 43° and mostly clear at 6 AM. With the wind it feels like 35°. The dew point is 33°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 16 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 82°, 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 6:48 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:50 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 11 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
23Air quality
70%Humidity
24%Cloud
Now
6:00 AM
43feels35
16mph
Today
Oct 16
5541
21mph
Sat
Oct 17
5932
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6637
15mph
Mon
Oct 19
7145
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7549
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
8054
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
8259
overcast
43°
55°41°
59°32°
66°37°
71°45°
75°49°
80°54°
82°59°
As of 6:00 AM in Lost Springs, Kansas.
Air quality
The air at Lost Springs
Index 23, good, led by fine particles. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Wichita (KS), 63 miles off.
23Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)23Good-
- Ozone21Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)19Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 19, good.
GoodModerate
- 19YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Lost Springs
None in the last 24 hours; 0.77 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.77in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Lost Springs, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 8 miles Sat 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Lost Springs, KansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Lost Springs, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Rank829of 1,079
Citizen station FW1204FW1204
In a volunteer observer's own ground/29.7 mi away/1,321 ft/172 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Beside a road/30.1 mi away/1,382 ft/111 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Fort RileyFRI
At an airfield/35.4 mi away/1,065 ft/428 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Herington 6.6 SSEKS-MR-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.1 mi away/1,465 ft/28 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
LincolnvilleLNCK1
At a cooperative observer's station/5.0 mi away/1,421 ft/72 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Fort Riley, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 35.4 mi from Lost Springs, Kansas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
47.0 F with a dew point of 35.2 F, 63 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,700 ft up.
The wind
From the west northwest (300 degrees) at 9 mph, gusting 17 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 20 mph.
The full report of Fort Riley, 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 Lincolnville (LNCK1), 5.0 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 09:00. measured daily
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The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.