US-77 @ Blue R. Blue RapidsK5BRP
Beside a road/18.6 mi away/1,187 ft/62 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Randolph until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 9 degrees cooler: a high of 54° after 63° today.
Now. Randolph is 52° and clear at 10 PM. The dew point is 47°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 11 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 42° by 5 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 54°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 31°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. 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 12 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Randolph, Kansas.
Air quality
Index 32, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Beatrice (NE), 60 miles off.
Yesterday measured 32, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.09 in in the last 24 hours, 0.17 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 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 Randolph, KansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 8 instruments nearest Randolph, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.1 miles away.
measured now6 instruments
US-77 @ Blue R. Blue RapidsK5BRP
Beside a road/18.6 mi away/1,187 ft/62 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Big Blue River AT Blue RapidsBLRK1
At a river or reservoir gauge/18.9 mi away/1,119 ft/130 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW2223GW2223
In a volunteer observer's own ground/19.0 mi away/1,139 ft/110 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
ManhattanMHK
At an airfield/20.8 mi away/1,056 ft/193 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Manhattan 6 SSW53974
At a climate reference station/24.4 mi away/1,137 ft/112 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Centralia LakeS2094
At a soil climate station/36.9 mi away/1,302 ft/53 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Randolph 3.1 NEKS-RL-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.1 mi away/1,235 ft/14 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
RandolphRDHK1
At a cooperative observer's station/4.3 mi away/1,175 ft/74 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 20.8 mi from Randolph, Kansas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 9:52 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
51.0 F with a dew point of 47.0 F, 86 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 900 ft up.
Calm.
The full report of Manhattan, 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.