I-70 - East Wakeeney InterchangeK5WKY
Beside a road/29.5 mi away/2,441 ft/185 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Utica, Kansas
City in Ness County, Kansas* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures 26-30 degrees possible. * WHERE...Portions of central, south central, southwest, and west central Kansas. * 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.
43°
54°/37°
Clear·
Feels like 36°·Moderate breeze 15 mph N
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Utica until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Utica is 43° and clear at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 36°. The dew point is 31°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north at 15 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 53° by 5 PM. Tonight falls to about 35° by 1 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 81°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 61°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is Sunday, with wind to 21 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:01 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:03 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.
-UV
22Air quality
62%Humidity
1%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
43feels36
15mph
Today
Oct 16
5437
20mph
Today
Oct 16
5428
25mph
Sat
Oct 17
6140
16mph
Sun
Oct 18
6745
21mph
Mon
Oct 19
7048
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
7657
20mph
Wed
Oct 21
8159
10%
18mph
43°
54°37°
54°28°
61°40°
67°45°
70°48°
76°57°
81°59°
As of 2:00 AM in Utica, Kansas.
Air quality
The air at Utica
Index 22, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Cedar Bluff (KS), 24 miles off.
22Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)14Good-
- Ozone22Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)14Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 12, good.
GoodModerate
- 12YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Utica
0.04 in in the last 24 hours, 0.43 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.04in
- Last 3 days
- 0.43in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 9%
Visibility
How far you can see at Utica, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 8 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 Utica, KansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 3 instruments nearest Utica, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now1 instrument
Rank-
measured daily2 instruments
Utica 0.0 EKS-NS-12
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.1 mi away/2,626 ft/level with here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
UticaUTCK1
At a cooperative observer's station/0.3 mi away/2,641 ft/15 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Utica (UTCK1), 0.3 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
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The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.