Airports/Kansas/McConnell Air Force Base

McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas

Medium airport in Sedgwick County, Kansas

56° 70°/62°

Mostly clear· Feels like 56°·Moderate breeze 19 mph N

Coming up. Tomorrow is 14 degrees cooler: a high of 56° after 70° today.

Now. McConnell Air Force Base is 56° and mostly clear at 9 PM. The dew point is 50°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north at 19 mph.

Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 44° 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 Wednesday, near 80°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 25 mph. Frost is possible Saturday morning, a low of 36°.

The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and sets at 10 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 16 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.

0UV Low

19Air quality

79%Humidity

25%Cloud

Now

9:00 PM

56feels56

19mph

Today

Oct 15

7062

67%

22mph

Fri

Oct 16

5644

25mph

UV 6

Sat

Oct 17

5836

UV 6

Sun

Oct 18

6338

16mph

UV 6

Mon

Oct 19

7048

Tue

Oct 20

7752

Wed

Oct 21

8059

56°

70°62°

56°44°

58°36°

63°38°

70°48°

77°52°

80°59°

As of 9:00 PM in McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas.

Air quality

The air at McConnell Air Force Base

Index 19, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Wichita (KS), 6 miles off.

19Good

Fine particles (PM2.5)19Good-
Ozone12Good-
Coarse particles (PM10)9Good-

The days ahead

Yesterday measured 51, moderate.

GoodModerate

51YesterdayOct 14

Smoke, the next 41 hours

No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.

Precipitation

What has fallen at McConnell Air Force Base

0.09 in in the last 24 hours, 2.20 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.

Last 24 hours: 0.09in
Last 3 days: 2.20in

3 days agoLast 24 hours 4%

Visibility

How far you can see at McConnell Air Force Base, the next 41 hours

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

Airfield

Code: IAB
ICAO: KIAB
IATA: IAB
Field elevation: 1,371 ft
Serves: Wichita
Kind: Medium airport
Scheduled service: No
Its own instrument: IAB
Wind now: From 360° at 20 mph, read 15 Oct, 20:55

Runways

Runway	Length	Width	Surface	Heading, true	Wind along it now	Crosswind now
01L / 19R	12,000 ft	150 ft	Concrete	12° / 192°	20 mph head, on 01L	4 mph from the left
01R / 19L	12,007 ft	150 ft	Asphalt and concrete	12° / 192°	20 mph head, on 01R	4 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 McConnell Air Force Base, 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 now4 instruments

Mcconnell_AFBIAB

At an airfield/0.1 mi away/1,371 ft/level with here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

I-135 @ 17th St.K5WSU

Beside a road/7.0 mi away/1,322 ft/49 ft below here

temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip

Cowskin Creek AT Wichita at KelloggKEGK1

At a river or reservoir gauge/10.8 mi away/1,325 ft/46 ft below here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

AbramsS2092

At a soil climate station/35.3 mi away/1,194 ft/177 ft below here