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Beside a road/13.9 mi away/1,194 ft/229 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Valley Falls, Kansas
City in Jefferson County, Kansas* WHAT...Temperatures as low as 33 will result in frost formation. * WHERE...Portions of east central and northeast Kansas. * WHEN...From 1 AM to 9 AM CDT Saturday. * IMPACTS...Frost could harm sensitive outdoor vegetation.
Tender plants should be brought inside or covered to protect them from the cold.
44°
55°/42°
Clear·
Feels like 39°·Gentle breeze 10 mph NW
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for Valley Falls until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Valley Falls is 44° and clear at 4 AM. With the wind it feels like 39°. The dew point is 37°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 10 mph, gusting to 21 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 55° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. 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. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:42 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:40 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
19Air quality
72%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
4:00 AM
44feels39
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
5542
20mph
Sat
Oct 17
5932
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6635
13mph
Mon
Oct 19
7042
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7445
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7950
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
8156
overcast
44°
55°42°
59°32°
66°35°
70°42°
74°45°
79°50°
81°56°
As of 4:00 AM in Valley Falls, Kansas.
Air quality
The air at Valley Falls
Index 19, good, led by fine particles. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Topeka (KS), 26 miles off.
19Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)19Good-
- Ozone17Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)18Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 28, good.
GoodModerate
- 28YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 40 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Valley Falls
0.02 in in the last 24 hours, 0.71 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.02in
- Last 3 days
- 0.71in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 3%
Visibility
How far you can see at Valley Falls, the next 40 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Valley Falls, KansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Valley Falls, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.9 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Rank-
Citizen station FW7360FW7360
In a volunteer observer's own ground/14.5 mi away/1,011 ft/46 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
08S 15E 28Dddd01 Pbpn MW3391907095441901
At a river or reservoir gauge/14.9 mi away/1,083 ft/118 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Topeka (Top)TOP
At an airfield/20.6 mi away/886 ft/79 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Ku-NesaS2147
At a soil climate station/24.7 mi away/1,102 ft/137 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Valley Falls 3 SWVLYK1
At a cooperative observer's station/2.9 mi away/1,076 ft/111 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Valley Falls 3.2 SEKS-JF-12
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.2 mi away/987 ft/22 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The weather at Topeka (Top), drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 20.6 mi from Valley Falls, Kansas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
47.0 F with a dew point of 38.0 F, 71 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,100 ft up.
The wind
From the west northwest (290 degrees) at 9 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 36 mph.
The full report of Topeka (Top), in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Valley Falls 3 SW (VLYK1), 2.9 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
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