Centralia Lake ScanCTRK1
At a river or reservoir gauge/16.0 mi away/1,302 ft/207 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Wheaton until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Wheaton is 48° and clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 42°. The dew point is 34°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 52° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° 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 79°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:45 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:43 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 Wheaton, Kansas.
Air quality
Index 15, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Topeka (KS), 46 miles off.
Yesterday measured 43, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.04 in in the last 24 hours, 0.06 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 2 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Wheaton, KansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 8 instruments nearest Wheaton, 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 now6 instruments
Centralia Lake ScanCTRK1
At a river or reservoir gauge/16.0 mi away/1,302 ft/207 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Centralia LakeS2094
At a soil climate station/16.0 mi away/1,302 ft/207 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
US-77 @ Blue R. Blue RapidsK5BRP
Beside a road/21.0 mi away/1,187 ft/322 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station EW7665EW7665
In a volunteer observer's own ground/23.3 mi away/1,025 ft/484 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
MarysvilleMYZ
At an airfield/29.6 mi away/1,290 ft/219 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Manhattan 6 SSW53974
At a climate reference station/31.6 mi away/1,137 ft/372 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Blaine 4 EBLNK1
At a cooperative observer's station/0.2 mi away/1,539 ft/30 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Blaine 3.3 SEKS-PT-11
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.6 mi away/1,333 ft/176 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 29.6 mi from Wheaton, Kansas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:35 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
48.2 F with a dew point of 33.8 F, 57 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 3,300 ft up.
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 14 mph, gusting 23 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 31 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.