Quivera Remote Automated Weather StationQNRK1
At a river or reservoir gauge/9.0 mi away/1,768 ft/41 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Raymond, Kansas
City in Rice County, Kansas* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures around 30 possible. * WHERE...McPherson, Rice, and Reno Counties. * WHEN...From late Friday night through Saturday morning. * 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.
48°
55°/41°
Clear·
Feels like 43°·Gentle breeze 13 mph N
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Raymond until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Raymond is 48° and clear at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 43°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north at 13 mph, gusting to 30 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 54° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. 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 81°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:55 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:57 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
21Air quality
73%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
48feels43
13mph
Today
Oct 16
5541
24mph
UV 6
Sat
Oct 17
6032
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
6437
19mph
Mon
Oct 19
7146
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7749
14mph
Wed
Oct 21
8156
13mph
Thu
Oct 22
8159
23%
14mph
48°
55°41°
60°32°
64°37°
71°46°
77°49°
81°56°
81°59°
As of 1:00 AM in Raymond, Kansas.
Air quality
The air at Raymond
Index 21, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Wichita (KS), 72 miles off.
21Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)21Good-
- Ozone12Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)7Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 51, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 51YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Raymond
0.04 in in the last 24 hours, 0.36 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.04in
- Last 3 days
- 0.36in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 11%
Visibility
How far you can see at Raymond, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 5 miles Sat 5 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Raymond, KansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Raymond, 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 now4 instruments
Rank362of 1,079
LyonsLYO
At an airfield/11.0 mi away/1,700 ft/27 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW8749DW8749
In a volunteer observer's own ground/21.1 mi away/1,859 ft/132 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
US-56 - Great BendK5GTB
Beside a road/23.7 mi away/1,877 ft/150 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Raymond 3.1 ESEKS-RC-14
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.1 mi away/1,701 ft/26 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Ellinwood No 1EIWK1
At a cooperative observer's station/11.0 mi away/1,791 ft/64 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Lyons, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 11.0 mi from Raymond, Kansas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
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 wind
From the north (10 degrees) at 22 mph, gusting 30 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 30 mph.
The full report of Lyons, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Kansas
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Cimarron National GrasslandfeatureConcordiacityDodge CitycityEmporiacityGarden CitycityGoodlandcityGreat BendcityHayscityHutchinsoncityLawrencecityLiberalcityManhattancityOlathecityOverland ParkcityPittsburgcityRussellcitySalinacitySmoky HillsfeatureTallgrass Prairie National PreservefeatureTopekacityWichitacity
Near Raymond
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.