I-40 & Elk CityI40ST038
Beside a road/6.2 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for Canute until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Canute is 55° and clear at 1 PM. The dew point is 35°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north at 23 mph, gusting to 37 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 57° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 83°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:01 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:10 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 18 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 PM in Canute, Oklahoma.
Air quality
Index 21, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 PM from its reporting area, Woodward (OK), 61 miles off.
Highest 60, moderate, Tue Oct 20, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 18, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 AM.
Precipitation
0.13 in in the last 24 hours, 6.60 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 7 AM, lowest 8 miles Sun 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Canute, OklahomaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Canute, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
I-40 & Elk CityI40ST038
Beside a road/6.2 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Elk CityELK
At an airfield/6.4 mi away/1,985 ft/82 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Foss Reservoir near Foss07324300
At a reservoir/9.8 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station DW8253DW8253
In a volunteer observer's own ground/32.6 mi away/1,672 ft/231 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Foss 0.2 NWOK-WH-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.4 mi away/1,651 ft/252 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
RetropRETO2
At a cooperative observer's station/18.7 mi away/1,785 ft/118 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 6.4 mi from Canute, Oklahoma. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
56.0 F with a dew point of 33.8 F, 43 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 5,000 ft up.
From the north (10 degrees) at 21 mph, gusting 35 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 35 mph.
The full report of Elk City, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Retrop (RETO2), 18.7 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.