US-81 @ Republican R. ConcordiaK5CNC
Beside a road/33.2 mi away/1,348 ft/256 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Mahaska until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Mahaska is 41° and clear at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 34°. The dew point is 34°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 12 mph, gusting to 23 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 51° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 30° by 5 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 79°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 29°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:49 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:46 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 9 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Mahaska, Kansas.
Air quality
Index 48, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Beatrice (NE), 35 miles off.
Yesterday measured 31, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.87 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 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 Mahaska, KansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Mahaska, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 9.4 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
US-81 @ Republican R. ConcordiaK5CNC
Beside a road/33.2 mi away/1,348 ft/256 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
ConcordiaCNK
At an airfield/34.1 mi away/1,483 ft/121 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Concordia 2SSECDAK1
At a river or reservoir gauge/34.9 mi away/1,539 ft/65 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Haddam 0.3 WKS-WS-20
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.4 mi away/1,426 ft/178 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
HaddamHADK1
At a cooperative observer's station/9.6 mi away/1,394 ft/210 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 34.1 mi from Mahaska, Kansas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
45.0 F with a dew point of 33.0 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.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 14 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 30 mph.
The full report of Concordia, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Haddam (HADK1), 9.6 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. 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.