Big Blue River AT Blue RapidsBLRK1
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.7 mi away/1,119 ft/58 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Waterville until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Waterville is 51° and mostly clear at 9 PM. The dew point is 45°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 10 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 41° by 5 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 79°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 53°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 30°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 12 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Waterville, Kansas.
Air quality
Index 29, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Beatrice (NE), 42 miles off.
Yesterday measured 32, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
0.20 in in the last 24 hours, 0.21 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Waterville, KansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Waterville, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Big Blue River AT Blue RapidsBLRK1
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.7 mi away/1,119 ft/58 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
US-77 @ Blue R. Blue RapidsK5BRP
Beside a road/6.1 mi away/1,187 ft/10 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
MarysvilleMYZ
At an airfield/12.9 mi away/1,290 ft/113 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Centralia LakeS2094
At a soil climate station/31.1 mi away/1,302 ft/125 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Citizen station GW2223GW2223
In a volunteer observer's own ground/36.1 mi away/1,139 ft/38 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Waterville 0.2 ENEKS-MS-17
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.2 mi away/1,169 ft/8 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Blue RapidsBRPK1
At a cooperative observer's station/4.7 mi away/1,158 ft/19 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 12.9 mi from Waterville, Kansas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 9:15 PM 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 46.4 F, 82 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,200 ft up.
From the north northwest (330 degrees) at 12 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 29 mph.
The full report of Marysville, 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.