Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Medicine Lodge Airport until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Medicine Lodge Airport is 52° and partly cloudy at 12 AM. The dew point is 44°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north at 10 mph, gusting to 21 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 57° by 3 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 Wednesday, near 81°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:56 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:01 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 14 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Medicine Lodge Airport, Kansas.
Air quality
Index 15, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Woodward (OK), 74 miles off.
Highest 70, moderate, Tue Oct 20, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 21, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.06 in in the last 24 hours, 2.40 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.
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Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 / 19 unlit | 2,270 ft | 90 ft | Grass | 23° / 203° | 5 mph head, on 01 | 7 mph from the left |
| 13 / 31 unlit | 1,690 ft | 80 ft | Grass | 139° / 319° | 9 mph head, on 31 | 2 mph from the right |
| 16 / 34 | 3,200 ft | 42 ft | Asphalt | 170° / 350° | 8 mph head, on 34 | 3 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Medicine Lodge (K51), Medicine Lodge Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
54 F at 10 PM Thursday; 64 F at its warmest, 8 AM Thursday, and 54 F at its coolest, 10 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 54 F, the air 100% saturated; the humidity ran from 77% at 5 PM Thursday to 100% at 1 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
8 mph from the north northwest at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 20 mph, 2 PM Thursday, with a gust of 33 mph at 2 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.37 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, rising 0.10 inHg over 3 hours; 0.41 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 2 miles at 9 AM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 300 ft at 5 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 20 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.02 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.01 in, in the hour to 9 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Medicine Lodge: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest Medicine Lodge 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 now2 instruments
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/1,519 ft/24 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
US-54 - PrattK5PTT
Beside a road/28.7 mi away/1,860 ft/317 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Medicine Lodge 0.8 SKS-BA-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.9 mi away/1,490 ft/53 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
KiowaKWAK1
At a cooperative observer's station/17.4 mi away/1,322 ft/221 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.