Great_BendGBD
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/1,886 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Great Bend Municipal Airport, Kansas
Small airport in Barton County, Kansas* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 possible. * WHERE...Barton, Ellsworth, Lincoln, Russell, and Saline Counties. * WHEN...From late Friday night through Saturday morning. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
54°
61°/52°
Partly cloudy·
Feels like 54°·Moderate breeze 14 mph NNW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Great Bend Municipal Airport until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Great Bend Municipal Airport is 54° and partly cloudy at 8 PM. The dew point is 48°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 14 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 40° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. 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 56°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 26 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 31°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% lit, and sets at 10:04 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 15 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
18Air quality
83%Humidity
43%Cloud
Now
8:00 PM
54feels54
14mph
Today
Oct 15
6152
40%
26mph
Fri
Oct 16
5640
26mph
UV 6
Sat
Oct 17
6131
14mph
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
6739
22mph
Mon
Oct 19
7346
13mph
Tue
Oct 20
7749
17mph
Wed
Oct 21
8156
13%
17mph
54°
61°52°
56°40°
61°31°
67°39°
73°46°
77°49°
81°56°
As of 8:00 PM in Great Bend Municipal Airport, Kansas.
Air quality
The air at Great Bend Municipal Airport
Index 18, good, led by ozone. Read at 8 PM from its reporting area, Cedar Bluff (KS), 57 miles off.
18Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)12Good-
- Ozone18Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)6Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 23, good.
GoodModerate
- 23YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Great Bend Municipal Airport
0.34 in in the last 24 hours, 0.69 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 7 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.34in
- Last 3 days
- 0.69in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 49%
Visibility
How far you can see at Great Bend Municipal Airport, the next 42 hours
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 1 mile Sat 7 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- GBD
- ICAO
- KGBD
- IATA
- GBD
- Field elevation
- 1,887 ft
- Serves
- Great Bend
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- GBD
- Wind now
- From 340° at 12 mph, read 15 Oct, 19:56
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 / 29 | 4,706 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 120° / 300° | 9 mph head, on 29 | 8 mph from the right |
| 17 / 35 | 7,852 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 180° / 0° | 11 mph head, on 35 | 4 mph from the left |
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Great Bend Municipal Airport, 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 now3 instruments
US-56 - Great BendK5GTB
Beside a road/1.2 mi away/1,877 ft/10 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Quivera Remote Automated Weather StationQNRK1
At a river or reservoir gauge/23.0 mi away/1,768 ft/119 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Great Bend 1.1 WKS-BT-33
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.0 mi away/1,876 ft/11 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Great Bend 3WNWGRBK1
At a cooperative observer's station/2.9 mi away/1,867 ft/20 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Kansas
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Great Bend Municipal Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
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- Pawnee Rockcity, 9 mi
- Albertcity, 11 mi
- Radiumcity, 12 mi
- Sewardcity, 12 mi
- Olmitzcity, 13 mi
- Hoisingtoncity, 13 mi
- Ellinwoodcity, 15 mi
- Otiscity, 17 mi
- Larnedcity, 17 mi
- Timkencity, 19 mi
- Hudsoncity, 20 mi
Airports near Great Bend Municipal Airport
- Larned Pawnee County AirportLQR, 15 mi
- Lyons-Rice County Municipal AirportLYO, 34 mi
- Russell Municipal AirportRSL, 37 mi
- Hays Regional AirportHYS, 41 mi
- Ellsworth Municipal Airport9K7, 44 mi
- Pratt Regional AirportPTT, 45 mi
- Hutchinson Municipal AirportHUT, 58 mi
- Mc Pherson AirportMPR, 63 mi