Beside a road/21.5 mi away/1,000 ft/71 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Now. Walnut is 51° and mostly clear at 3 AM. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 13 mph, gusting to 25 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 55° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 37° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. 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. 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, 33% lit, and sets at 10:45 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 14 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Walnut, Kansas.
Air quality
Index 18, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Chanute (KS), 22 miles off.
Yesterday measured 12, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.58 in in the last 24 hours, 2.35 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Walnut, KansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Walnut, 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
Beside a road/21.5 mi away/1,000 ft/71 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
PittsburgPTS
At an airfield/21.7 mi away/950 ft/21 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station CW2856CW2856
In a volunteer observer's own ground/23.2 mi away/918 ft/11 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Big Hill Creek AT Big Hill LakeBIGK1
At a river or reservoir gauge/31.4 mi away/876 ft/53 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
WalnutWLNK1
At a cooperative observer's station/0.3 mi away/928 ft/1 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
St. Paul 0.4 ESEKS-NO-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.7 mi away/900 ft/29 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 21.7 mi from Walnut, Kansas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
51.8 F with a dew point of 48.2 F, 87 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 800 ft up.
At 3 mph: force 1, a light air on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 18 mph.
The full report of Pittsburg, 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.