Citizen station FW1490FW1490
In a volunteer observer's own ground/21.3 mi away/3,300 ft/312 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Freeze Watch, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Tribune until 9 AM tomorrow. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Tribune is 47° and mostly clear at 8 PM. With the wind it feels like 42°. The dew point is 39°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 11 mph, gusting to 21 mph.
Today and tonight. 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 week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 80°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 28°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and sets at 9:16 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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 14 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 8:00 PM in Tribune, Kansas.
Air quality
Index 14, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 8 PM from its reporting area, Goodland (KS), 60 miles off.
Yesterday measured 18, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 12 PM.
Precipitation
0.11 in in the last 24 hours, 0.12 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 7 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 12 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Tribune, KansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Tribune, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station FW1490FW1490
In a volunteer observer's own ground/21.3 mi away/3,300 ft/312 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Leoti3K7
At an airfield/21.8 mi away/3,297 ft/315 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
US-40 - 2 mi. W of WallaceK5WLC
Beside a road/31.1 mi away/3,408 ft/204 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Arkansas River At KendallKENK1
At a river or reservoir gauge/39.0 mi away/3,140 ft/472 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Tribune 0.4 SEKS-GL-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/3,592 ft/20 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Tribune 1WTRBK1
At a cooperative observer's station/1.3 mi away/3,648 ft/36 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 21.8 mi from Tribune, Kansas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 9:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 6,500 ft; the ceiling is 6,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
42.8 F with a dew point of 37.4 F, 81 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,200 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 6,500 ft.
From the north northwest (330 degrees) at 9 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 38 mph.
The full report of Leoti, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Tribune 1W (TRBK1), 1.3 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:35. measured daily
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.