IolaK88
At an airfield/18.1 mi away/1,005 ft/56 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Now. Stark is 52° and overcast at 1 PM. The dew point is 39°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northwest at 21 mph, gusting to 33 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 36° 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 week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 81°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:42 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:45 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 1:00 PM in Stark, Kansas.
Air quality
Index 18, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 PM from its reporting area, Chanute (KS), 18 miles off.
Yesterday measured 20, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 AM.
Precipitation
0.07 in in the last 24 hours, 2.50 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 7 AM, lowest 9 miles Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Stark, KansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Stark, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
IolaK88
At an airfield/18.1 mi away/1,005 ft/56 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Beside a road/20.6 mi away/1,000 ft/61 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station CW2856CW2856
In a volunteer observer's own ground/28.2 mi away/918 ft/143 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Big Hill Creek AT Big Hill LakeBIGK1
At a river or reservoir gauge/34.1 mi away/876 ft/185 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Savonburg 4.1 ESEKS-BB-23
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.0 mi away/1,013 ft/48 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
WalnutWLNK1
At a cooperative observer's station/7.0 mi away/928 ft/133 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 18.1 mi from Stark, Kansas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 4,300 ft; the ceiling is 4,300 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
53.6 F with a dew point of 39.2 F, 58 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 3,300 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 4,300 ft.
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 21 mph, gusting 30 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 32 mph.
The full report of Iola, 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.