Citizen station FW0518FW0518
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.3 mi away/1,110 ft/101 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for Overbrook until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Overbrook is 44° and clear at 4 AM. With the wind it feels like 38°. The dew point is 35°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 10 mph, gusting to 23 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 54° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 7 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 Thursday, near 80°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:43 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:43 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 4:00 AM in Overbrook, Kansas.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by fine particles. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Topeka (KS), 19 miles off.
Yesterday measured 28, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.07 in in the last 24 hours, 1.40 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 8 miles Sat 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Overbrook, KansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Overbrook, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.2 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Citizen station FW0518FW0518
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.3 mi away/1,110 ft/101 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Topeka (FOE)FOE
At an airfield/13.1 mi away/1,079 ft/132 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Beside a road/16.3 mi away/991 ft/220 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Lawrence 6NE - KU Field [CCOOP]KUSK1
At a river or reservoir gauge/27.0 mi away/1,086 ft/125 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Ku-NesaS2147
At a soil climate station/27.3 mi away/1,102 ft/109 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Overbrook 1.2 NWKS-OS-11
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.2 mi away/1,135 ft/76 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
OverbrookOVRK1
At a cooperative observer's station/2.4 mi away/1,181 ft/30 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 13.1 mi from Overbrook, Kansas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:53 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 36.0 F, 71 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,000 ft up.
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 15 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 28 mph.
The full report of Topeka (FOE), 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.