Temperature
59 F at 2 PM; 59 F at its warmest, 2 PM, and 35 F at its coolest, 7 AM.
- Now
- 59F
- 2 PM
- Highest
- 59F
- 2 PM
- Lowest
- 35F
- 7 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Emporia Municipal Airport, Kansas
Small airport in Lyon County, Kansas59°
65°/32°
Clear·
Feels like 59°·Light breeze 7 mph S
Now. Emporia Municipal Airport is 59° and clear at 3 PM. The dew point is 33°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the south at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 39° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 79°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 63°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:44 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 43% lit, and sets at 11:46 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 10 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
4UV Moderate
25Air quality
38%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
3:00 PM
59feels59
now, clear
Today
Oct 17
6532
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6337
16mph
Mon
Oct 19
6542
13mph
Tue
Oct 20
7047
13mph
Wed
Oct 21
7552
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7955
overcast
Fri
Oct 23
7957
overcast
59°
65°32°
63°37°
65°42°
70°47°
75°52°
79°55°
79°57°
As of 3:00 PM in Emporia Municipal Airport, Kansas.
Air quality
The air at Emporia Municipal Airport
Index 25, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 PM from its reporting area, Topeka (KS), 54 miles off.
25Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)12Good-
- Ozone25Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)7Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 24, good.
GoodModerate
- 24YesterdayOct 16
Smoke, the next 41 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Mon 7 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Emporia Municipal Airport
None in the last 24 hours; 0.13 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 2 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.13in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Emporia Municipal Airport, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Mon 7 AM, lowest 8 miles Sun 6 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- EMP
- ICAO
- KEMP
- IATA
- EMP
- Field elevation
- 1,208 ft
- Serves
- Emporia
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- EMP
- Wind now
- From 250° at 7 mph, read 17 Oct, 14:53
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 / 19 | 5,005 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 12° / 192° | 4 mph head, on 19 | 6 mph from the right |
| 06 / 24 unlit | 3,881 ft | 300 ft | Grass | 63° / 243° | 7 mph head, on 24 | 1 mph from the right |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Emporia (EMP), Emporia Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 33 F, the air 37% saturated; the humidity ran from 37% at 2 PM to 92% at 1 AM.
- Dew point now
- 33F
- 2 PM
- Humidity now
- 37%
- Humidity, range
- 37 to 92%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
6 mph from the southwest at 3 PM; at its strongest 16 mph, 4 PM Friday, with a gust of 35 mph at 4 PM Friday.
- Now
- 6mph
- from the southwest
- Strongest
- 16mph
- 4 PM Friday
- Highest gust
- 35mph
- 4 PM Friday
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.45 inHg at 3 PM, falling 0.09 inHg over 3 hours; 0.07 inHg lower than a day before.
- Now
- 30.45inHg
- 3 PM
- 3 hours
- -0.09inHg
- falling
- 24 hours
- -0.07inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
10 miles or more every hour.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 10+mi
- Hours under a mile
- 0
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
Cloud base
The lowest cloud base came down to 5,000 ft at 4 PM Friday; a base was reported in 2 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- -
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 5,000ft
- 4 PM Friday
- Hours with a base reported
- 2
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
Precipitation
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Wettest hour
- -
- Hours with some
- 0
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Emporia: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Emporia Municipal Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
EmporiaEMP
At an airfield/0.1 mi away/1,207 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Beside a road/7.5 mi away/1,136 ft/72 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At a river or reservoir gauge/21.2 mi away/1,316 ft/108 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Emporia 1.4 SSEKS-LY-17
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.2 mi away/1,124 ft/84 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Neosho River 3 NW Emporia 3nwEPRK1
At a cooperative observer's station/7.0 mi away/1,122 ft/86 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Kansas
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Emporia Municipal Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Emporiacity, 5 mi
- Olpecity, 5 mi
- Neosho Rapidscity, 11 mi
- Americuscity, 13 mi
- Hartfordcity, 13 mi
- Madisoncity, 14 mi
- Readingcity, 18 mi
- Lebocity, 19 mi
- Cottonwood Fallscity, 19 mi
- Strong Citycity, 19 mi
- Dunlapcity, 19 mi
- Admirecity, 22 mi
Airports near Emporia Municipal Airport
- Coffey County AirportUKL, 25 mi
- Eureka Municipal Airport13K, 34 mi
- Topeka Regional AirportFOE, 51 mi
- Captain Jack Thomas El Dorado AirportEQA, 51 mi
- Ottawa Municipal AirportOWI, 53 mi
- Allen County AirportK88, 54 mi
- Marshall Army Air FieldFRI, 59 mi
- Philip Billard Municipal AirportTOP, 59 mi