Cimarron River near Forgan07156900
At a river or reservoir gauge/18.2 mi away/2,321 ft/440 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Plains, Kansas
City in Meade County, Kansas* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures in the 20s in western Kansas and lower 30s in south central Kansas. * WHERE...Portions of central, south central, southwest, and west central Kansas. * WHEN...From 1 AM CDT /midnight MDT/ to 9 AM CDT /8 AM MDT/ Saturday. * 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.
53°
57°/37°
Clear·
Feels like 53°·Moderate breeze 15 mph N
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Plains 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 65° after 57° today.
Now. Plains is 53° and clear at 5 PM. The dew point is 29°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north at 15 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 30° 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 Wednesday, near 83°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 65°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is Sunday, with wind to 21 mph. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:04 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:09 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 14 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
2UV Low
-Air quality
35%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
5:00 PM
53feels53
15mph
Today
Oct 16
5737
23mph
UV 6
Sat
Oct 17
6530
16mph
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
7138
21mph
Mon
Oct 19
7646
15mph
Tue
Oct 20
7950
18mph
Wed
Oct 21
8355
12mph
Thu
Oct 22
8358
15%
15mph
53°
57°37°
65°30°
71°38°
76°46°
79°50°
83°55°
83°58°
As of 5:00 PM in Plains, Kansas.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Plains
None in the last 24 hours; 0.02 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 4 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.02in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Plains, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 1 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
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Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 4 instruments nearest Plains, 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 now2 instruments
Rank611of 1,079
Sublette19S
At an airfield/20.8 mi away/2,928 ft/167 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Plains 0.4 WSWKS-ME-19
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.1 mi away/2,773 ft/12 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
MontezumaMTZK1
At a cooperative observer's station/24.3 mi away/2,799 ft/38 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Montezuma (MTZK1), 24.3 miles from here, read 10 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Kansas
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Plains
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.