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At an airfield/10.4 mi away/3,016 ft/159 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Monument, Kansas
Community in Logan County, Kansas* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 28 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°/43°
Clear·
Feels like 44°·Moderate breeze 14 mph NNW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Monument until 10 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Monument is 49° and clear at 9 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 35° 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 22 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 29°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% lit, and sets at 10:10 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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 14 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
14Air quality
48%Humidity
8%Cloud
Now
9:00 PM
49feels44
14mph
Today
Oct 15
5943
14%
24mph
Fri
Oct 16
5435
22mph
UV 6
Sat
Oct 17
6329
17mph
Sun
Oct 18
6939
15mph
Mon
Oct 19
6943
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7744
14mph
Wed
Oct 21
8154
13mph
49°
59°43°
54°35°
63°29°
69°39°
69°43°
77°44°
81°54°
As of 9:00 PM in Monument, Kansas.
Air quality
The air at Monument
Index 14, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Goodland (KS), 40 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 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Monument
0.16 in in the last 24 hours, 0.17 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.16in
- Last 3 days
- 0.17in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 94%
Visibility
How far you can see at Monument, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Monument, KansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Monument, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.5 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Rank718of 1,079
I-70 - East Oakley InterchangeK5OK7
Beside a road/11.0 mi away/3,018 ft/157 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Oakley 19 SSWSVRK1
At a river or reservoir gauge/16.5 mi away/2,884 ft/291 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Oakley 19 SSW03067
At a climate reference station/16.5 mi away/2,870 ft/305 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Citizen station FW8773FW8773
In a volunteer observer's own ground/19.0 mi away/3,192 ft/17 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Oakley 4WOAKK1
At a cooperative observer's station/3.5 mi away/3,120 ft/55 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Monument 3.7 SKS-LG-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.1 mi away/3,153 ft/22 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The weather at Oakley, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 10.4 mi from Monument, Kansas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 9:35 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
51.6 F with a dew point of 32.0 F, 47 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 4,400 ft up.
The wind
From the north (360 degrees) at 22 mph, gusting 25 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 39 mph.
The full report of Oakley, 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 Oakley 4W (OAKK1), 3.5 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
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