Kansas R Nr Belvue06888350
At a river or reservoir gauge/9.6 mi away/926 ft/76 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Louisville until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Louisville is 50° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 39°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 10 mph, gusting to 20 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 54° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 81°, 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 6:45 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 10 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Louisville, Kansas.
Air quality
Index 15, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Topeka (KS), 36 miles off.
Yesterday measured 43, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.18 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 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 Louisville, KansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 8 instruments nearest Louisville, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.0 miles away.
measured now6 instruments
Kansas R Nr Belvue06888350
At a river or reservoir gauge/9.6 mi away/926 ft/76 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station EW7665EW7665
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.3 mi away/1,025 ft/23 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
K-177 @ Kansas R. ManhattanK5MAN
Beside a road/14.1 mi away/1,014 ft/12 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Manhattan 6 SSW53974
At a climate reference station/18.7 mi away/1,137 ft/135 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
ManhattanMHK
At an airfield/21.3 mi away/1,056 ft/54 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Centralia LakeS2094
At a soil climate station/32.0 mi away/1,302 ft/300 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
WamegoWAMK1
At a cooperative observer's station/2.0 mi away/1,106 ft/104 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Wamego 0.8 NNWKS-PT-50
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.5 mi away/1,038 ft/36 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 21.3 mi from Louisville, Kansas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:52 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
52.0 F with a dew point of 38.0 F, 59 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 3,200 ft up.
From the north (350 degrees) at 7 mph, gusting 20 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 28 mph.
The full report of Manhattan, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Wamego (WAMK1), 2.0 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.