North Canadian River 2 NW Canton LakeCNLO2
At a river or reservoir gauge/20.2 mi away/1,634 ft/80 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Now. Chester is 52° and clear at 3 AM. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 59° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° by 6 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 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 84°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 62°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:59 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:06 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 17 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Chester, Oklahoma.
Air quality
Index 15, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Woodward (OK), 11 miles off.
Highest 70, moderate, Tue Oct 20, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 16, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.04 in in the last 24 hours, 1.45 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Chester, OklahomaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Chester, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.3 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
North Canadian River 2 NW Canton LakeCNLO2
At a river or reservoir gauge/20.2 mi away/1,634 ft/80 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/36.8 mi away/2,188 ft/474 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW8253DW8253
In a volunteer observer's own ground/38.4 mi away/1,672 ft/42 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Seiling 0.3 NEOK-DW-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.3 mi away/1,741 ft/27 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
WaynokaWAYO2
At a cooperative observer's station/21.9 mi away/1,483 ft/231 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 36.8 mi from Chester, Oklahoma. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:30 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
48.4 F with a dew point of 40.3 F, 73 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,900 ft up.
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 13 mph, gusting 20 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 20 mph.
The full report of West Woodward, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Waynoka (WAYO2), 21.9 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. 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.