In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.1 mi away/1,466 ft/25 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 12 degrees cooler: a high of 56° after 68° today.
Now. Mount Hope is 54° and mostly clear at 9 PM. The dew point is 49°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north at 16 mph, gusting to 27 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 43° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 80°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 25 mph. Frost is possible Saturday morning, a low of 33°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and sets at 10:01 PM. 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 15 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Mount Hope, Kansas.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Wichita (KS), 22 miles off.
Yesterday measured 51, moderate.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
0.04 in in the last 24 hours, 1.30 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Mount Hope, KansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Mount Hope, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.1 mi away/1,466 ft/25 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Cowskin C At 119Th St At Wichita07144480
At a river or reservoir gauge/15.2 mi away/1,313 ft/128 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
HutchinsonHUT
At an airfield/17.4 mi away/1,542 ft/101 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
I-135 @ 17th St.K5WSU
Beside a road/21.9 mi away/1,322 ft/119 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Mt HopeMTHK1
At a cooperative observer's station/0.2 mi away/1,437 ft/4 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Mount Hope 0.3 SSWKS-SG-119
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/1,441 ft/level with here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 17.4 mi from Mount Hope, Kansas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 8:52 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
53.0 F with a dew point of 48.0 F, 83 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,100 ft up.
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 10 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 43 mph.
The full report of Hutchinson, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.