Arkansas River At Kaw LakeKAWO2
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.2 mi away/1,017 ft/120 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for Kaw City until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Kaw City is 53° and partly cloudy at 12 PM. The dew point is 37°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north at 20 mph, gusting to 35 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 56° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 35° 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 week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 83°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:50 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:56 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 15 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 PM in Kaw City, Oklahoma.
Air quality
Index 24, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 AM from its reporting area, Tulsa (OK), 65 miles off.
Highest 80, moderate, Tue Oct 20, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 29, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 AM.
Precipitation
0.07 in in the last 24 hours, 2.95 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 10 AM. 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 Kaw City, OklahomaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Kaw City, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Arkansas River At Kaw LakeKAWO2
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.2 mi away/1,017 ft/120 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station EW4071EW4071
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.0 mi away/1,043 ft/94 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/13.2 mi away/1,007 ft/130 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
I-35 & Billings35ST199
Beside a road/32.4 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Ponca City 1.9 NEOK-KY-27
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.1 mi away/1,070 ft/67 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
NewkirkNWKO2
At a cooperative observer's station/13.9 mi away/1,148 ft/11 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 13.2 mi from Kaw City, Oklahoma. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 11:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 4,300 ft; the ceiling is 4,300 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
55.0 F with a dew point of 37.0 F, 51 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 4,100 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 4,300 ft.
From the north (350 degrees) at 22 mph, gusting 35 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 39 mph.
The full report of Ponca City Muni, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Newkirk (NWKO2), 13.9 miles from here, read 16 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.