Arkansas River At Kaw LakeKAWO2
At a river or reservoir gauge/15.2 mi away/1,017 ft/151 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Now. Shidler is 55° and mostly cloudy at 12 AM. The dew point is 49°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north at 13 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 82°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:49 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:55 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Shidler, Oklahoma.
Air quality
Index 16, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Tulsa (OK), 58 miles off.
Highest 80, moderate, Mon Oct 19, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 20, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
1.25 in in the last 24 hours, 3.20 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 8 miles Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Shidler, OklahomaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Shidler, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 13.5 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Arkansas River At Kaw LakeKAWO2
At a river or reservoir gauge/15.2 mi away/1,017 ft/151 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station EW4071EW4071
In a volunteer observer's own ground/23.3 mi away/1,043 ft/125 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/24.5 mi away/1,007 ft/161 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
HardyHRDO2
At a cooperative observer's station/13.5 mi away/1,247 ft/79 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Fairfax 0.2 SEOK-OS-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/15.1 mi away/855 ft/313 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 24.5 mi from Shidler, Oklahoma. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:53 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 50.0 F, 80 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,400 ft up.
From the north (350 degrees) at 17 mph, gusting 26 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 37 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 Hardy (HRDO2), 13.5 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.