Pressure
30.34 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, rising 0.11 inHg over 3 hours; 0.44 inHg higher than a day before.
- Now
- 30.34inHg
- 10 PM Thursday
- 3 hours
- +0.11inHg
- rising
- 24 hours
- +0.44inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Now. Colonel James Jabara Airport is 53° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 48°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north at 15 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 55° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° 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 81°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:50 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:54 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 13 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Colonel James Jabara Airport, Kansas.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Wichita (KS), 6 miles off.
Yesterday measured 51, moderate.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.08 in in the last 24 hours, 1.30 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 / 36 | 6,101 ft | 100 ft | Concrete | 187° / 7° | - | - |
Measured here
Every hour from Wichita (AAO) (AAO), Colonel James Jabara Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
30.34 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, rising 0.11 inHg over 3 hours; 0.44 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Wichita (AAO): every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Colonel James Jabara Airport, 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 now3 instruments
At an airfield/0.2 mi away/1,421 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Beside a road/0.6 mi away/1,401 ft/20 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Cowskin Creek AT Wichita at KelloggKEGK1
At a river or reservoir gauge/14.1 mi away/1,325 ft/96 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Wichita 8.1 NEKS-SG-204
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.2 mi away/1,423 ft/2 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/13.7 mi away/1,335 ft/86 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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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.