Citizen station KKSNEWCA7KKSNEWCA7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/16.4 mi away/1,192 ft/20 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Talmage until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 8 degrees cooler: a high of 55° after 63° today.
Now. Talmage is 52° and clear at 10 PM. The dew point is 48°, 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 8 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 81°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 32°.
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 14 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Talmage, Kansas.
Precipitation
0.05 in in the last 24 hours, 0.70 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 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Talmage, KansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Talmage, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.0 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Citizen station KKSNEWCA7KKSNEWCA7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/16.4 mi away/1,192 ft/20 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
I-70 @ I-135 SalinaK5SLN
Beside a road/23.3 mi away/1,223 ft/11 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Mulberry Creek 3 W SalinaSLNK1
At a river or reservoir gauge/25.3 mi away/1,247 ft/35 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Fort RileyFRI
At an airfield/26.6 mi away/1,065 ft/147 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Manhattan 6 SSW53974
At a climate reference station/35.7 mi away/1,137 ft/75 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Manchester 5.6 SEKS-DK-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.0 mi away/1,227 ft/15 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Abilene 1 WABLK1
At a cooperative observer's station/7.4 mi away/1,168 ft/44 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 26.6 mi from Talmage, Kansas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 9:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
54.0 F with a dew point of 48.0 F, 80 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,400 ft up.
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 3 mph: force 1, a light air on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 23 mph.
The full report of Fort Riley, 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.