Shalz Field, Kansas

Small airport in Thomas County, Kansas

51° 59°/44°

Clear· Feels like 51°·Fresh breeze 21 mph NNW

Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Shalz Field until 10 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.

Now. Shalz Field is 51° and clear at 9 PM. The dew point is 33°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northwest at 21 mph.

Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 35° by 8 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 Wednesday, near 81°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 29°.

The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and sets at 10:09 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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 12 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.

0UV Low

14Air quality

50%Humidity

1%Cloud

Now

9:00 PM

51feels51

21mph

Today

Oct 15

5944

22%

26mph

Fri

Oct 16

5435

22mph

Sat

Oct 17

6429

20mph

Sun

Oct 18

6939

17mph

Mon

Oct 19

6943

Tue

Oct 20

7744

15mph

Wed

Oct 21

8154

16mph

51°

59°44°

54°35°

64°29°

69°39°

69°43°

77°44°

81°54°

As of 9:00 PM in Shalz Field, Kansas.

Air quality

The air at Shalz Field

Index 14, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Goodland (KS), 35 miles off.

14Good

Fine particles (PM2.5)13Good-
Coarse particles (PM10)14Good-

The days ahead

Yesterday measured 18, good.

GoodModerate

18YesterdayOct 14

Smoke, the next 41 hours

No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.

Precipitation

What has fallen at Shalz Field

0.29 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.

Last 24 hours: 0.29in
Last 3 days: 0.29in

Visibility

How far you can see at Shalz Field, the next 41 hours

Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 8 AM.

Airfield

Code: CBK
ICAO: KCBK
IATA: CBK
Field elevation: 3,187 ft
Serves: Colby
Kind: Small airport
Scheduled service: No
Its own instrument: CBK
Wind now: From 330° at 23 mph, read 15 Oct, 21:15

Runways

Runway	Length	Width	Surface	Heading, true	Wind along it now	Crosswind now
04 / 22 unlit	2,600 ft	80 ft	Grass	47° / 227°	5 mph head, on 04	22 mph from the left
12 / 30 unlit	2,660 ft	90 ft	Grass	133° / 313°	22 mph head, on 30	7 mph from the right
17 / 35	5,110 ft	75 ft	Concrete	180° / 0°	20 mph head, on 35	12 mph from the left

Runways from their surveyed ends, north up, lengths and positions to scale; the rose in the corner is the wind now.

What is measuring near here

The 6 instruments nearest Shalz Field, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.0 miles away.

measured now4 instruments

ColbyCBK

At an airfield/0.0 mi away/3,186 ft/1 ft below here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

I-70 - East Oakley InterchangeK5OK7

Beside a road/25.3 mi away/3,018 ft/169 ft below here

temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip

Oakley 19 SSWSVRK1

At a river or reservoir gauge/38.8 mi away/2,884 ft/303 ft below here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

Oakley 19 SSW03067

At a climate reference station/38.8 mi away/2,870 ft/317 ft below here