ConcordiaCNK
At an airfield/19.1 mi away/1,483 ft/211 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Vining until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Vining is 48° and clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 42°. The dew point is 37°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 15 mph, gusting to 26 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 53° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 6 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 Wednesday, near 81°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 61°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:49 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:47 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 10 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Vining, Kansas.
Air quality
Index 32, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Beatrice (NE), 56 miles off.
Yesterday measured 32, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.32 in in the last 24 hours, 0.34 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
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 Vining, KansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Vining, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
ConcordiaCNK
At an airfield/19.1 mi away/1,483 ft/211 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Concordia 2SSECDAK1
At a river or reservoir gauge/19.5 mi away/1,539 ft/267 ft above here
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US-81 @ Republican R. ConcordiaK5CNC
Beside a road/19.7 mi away/1,348 ft/76 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
CliftonCFTK1
At a cooperative observer's station/0.4 mi away/1,286 ft/14 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Clifton 0.4 NWKS-WS-16
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.6 mi away/1,323 ft/51 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 19.1 mi from Vining, Kansas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
51.0 F with a dew point of 39.0 F, 63 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,700 ft up.
From the north (350 degrees) at 15 mph, gusting 24 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 38 mph.
The full report of Concordia, 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.