Citizen station CW0352CW0352
In a volunteer observer's own ground/16.0 mi away/3,160 ft/210 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Menlo, Kansas
City in Thomas 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.
49°
59°/44°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 44°·Moderate breeze 14 mph NNW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Menlo until 10 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Menlo is 49° and mostly clear at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 44°. The dew point is 32°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 14 mph, gusting to 25 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 36° by 8 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 Wednesday, near 81°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 30°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 12 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
14Air quality
52%Humidity
25%Cloud
Now
10:00 PM
49feels44
14mph
Today
Oct 15
5944
19%
24mph
Fri
Oct 16
5436
21mph
Sat
Oct 17
6430
17mph
Sun
Oct 18
7040
15mph
Mon
Oct 19
6943
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7745
13mph
Wed
Oct 21
8155
13mph
49°
59°44°
54°36°
64°30°
70°40°
69°43°
77°45°
81°55°
As of 10:00 PM in Menlo, Kansas.
Air quality
The air at Menlo
Index 14, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Goodland (KS), 53 miles off.
14Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)13Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)14Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 18, good.
GoodModerate
- 18YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Menlo
0.27 in in the last 24 hours, 0.29 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.27in
- Last 3 days
- 0.29in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 93%
Visibility
How far you can see at Menlo, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 10 miles Sat 4 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Menlo, KansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Menlo, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.3 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Rank913of 1,079
I-70 - East Oakley InterchangeK5OK7
Beside a road/17.4 mi away/3,018 ft/68 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
ColbyCBK
At an airfield/18.0 mi away/3,186 ft/236 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Oakley 19 SSW03067
At a climate reference station/35.9 mi away/2,870 ft/80 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Oakley 19 SSWSVRK1
At a river or reservoir gauge/36.0 mi away/2,884 ft/66 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Rexford 1SWRXFK1
At a cooperative observer's station/7.3 mi away/2,982 ft/32 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Rexford 0.2 SSWKS-TH-36
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.8 mi away/2,957 ft/7 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The weather at Colby, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 18.0 mi from Menlo, Kansas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:15 PM 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 33.0 F, 56 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 3,400 ft up.
The wind
From the north northwest (330 degrees) at 14 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 33 mph.
The full report of Colby, 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.