Garden_CityGCK
At an airfield/4.2 mi away/2,890 ft/138 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Pierceville 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 63° after 55° today.
Now. Pierceville is 47° and clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 41°. The dew point is 38°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 13 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 54° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 82°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 63°. Rain is possible Thursday (33%). The windiest day is Sunday, with wind to 24 mph. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 29°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:04 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:08 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 13 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Pierceville, Kansas.
Precipitation
0.57 in in the last 24 hours, 0.92 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 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Pierceville, KansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Pierceville, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.2 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Garden_CityGCK
At an airfield/4.2 mi away/2,890 ft/138 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW4477GW4477
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.7 mi away/2,886 ft/134 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
US-50 @ K-156 bridge Garden CityKS010
Beside a road/11.3 mi away/2,841 ft/89 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Ingalls 6.2 WNWKS-GY-16
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.7 mi away/2,723 ft/29 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Garden City Experimental StationGESK1
On a farm or research station/10.8 mi away/2,897 ft/145 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 4.2 mi from Pierceville, Kansas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:54 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 7,000 ft; the ceiling is 7,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
49.0 F with a dew point of 41.0 F, 74 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,800 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 7,000 ft.
From the north (350 degrees) at 20 mph, gusting 25 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 41 mph.
The full report of Garden_City, 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.