Beside a road/14.0 mi away/2,235 ft/22 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Ness City until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 8 degrees warmer: a high of 62° after 54° today.
Now. Ness City is 45° and partly cloudy at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 40°. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north at 10 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 54° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 37° by 11 PM, 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 62°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is Sunday, with wind to 22 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:02 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 12 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Ness City, Kansas.
Air quality
Index 16, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Cedar Bluff (KS), 24 miles off.
Yesterday measured 23, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.32 in in the last 24 hours, 0.41 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 Ness City, KansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 3 instruments nearest Ness City, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now1 instrument
Beside a road/14.0 mi away/2,235 ft/22 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Ness City 0.2 NWKS-NS-21
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.1 mi away/2,261 ft/4 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Ness CityNESK1
At a cooperative observer's station/0.5 mi away/2,270 ft/13 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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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.