Beside a road/2.7 mi away/1,000 ft/41 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Now. Thayer is 44° and clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 40°. The dew point is 38°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 58° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 38° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Friday, near 82°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 64°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:42 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 43% lit, and sets at 11:46 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 11 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Thayer, Kansas.
Air quality
Index 21, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Chanute (KS), 13 miles off.
Yesterday measured 20, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 2.40 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Thayer, KansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Thayer, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.7 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Beside a road/2.7 mi away/1,000 ft/41 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
ParsonsPPF
At an airfield/11.2 mi away/899 ft/142 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Big Hill Creek AT Big Hill LakeBIGK1
At a river or reservoir gauge/15.1 mi away/876 ft/165 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
GalesburgGLBK1
At a cooperative observer's station/6.7 mi away/988 ft/53 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Parsons 5.7 NWKS-NO-12
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.7 mi away/1,003 ft/38 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 11.2 mi from Thayer, Kansas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 11:52 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
40.0 F with a dew point of 37.0 F, 89 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 700 ft up.
From the north northeast (30 degrees) at 5 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 38 mph.
The full report of Parsons, 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.