Ulysses Airport, Kansas

Small airport in Grant County, Kansas

49° 62°/48°

Clear· Feels like 45°·Gentle breeze 10 mph N

Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Ulysses Airport until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.

Now. Ulysses Airport is 49° and clear at 8 PM. With the wind it feels like 45°. The dew point is 45°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north at 10 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 55°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 27°.

The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% lit, and sets at 10:17 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

-Air quality

87%Humidity

0%Cloud

Now

8:00 PM

49feels45

Today

Oct 15

6248

25mph

Fri

Oct 16

5535

22mph

UV 7

Sat

Oct 17

6427

17mph

UV 6

Sun

Oct 18

7239

21mph

Mon

Oct 19

7444

Tue

Oct 20

7947

18mph

Wed

Oct 21

8154

15%

20mph

49°

62°48°

55°35°

64°27°

72°39°

74°44°

79°47°

81°54°

As of 8:00 PM in Ulysses Airport, Kansas.

Precipitation

What has fallen at Ulysses Airport

0.98 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 7 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.

Last 24 hours: 0.98in
Last 3 days: 0.98in

Visibility

How far you can see at Ulysses Airport, the next 42 hours

Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 5 AM.

Airfield

Code: ULS
ICAO: KULS
IATA: -
Field elevation: 3,071 ft
Serves: Ulysses
Kind: Small airport
Scheduled service: No
Its own instrument: ULS
Wind now: From 330° at 7 mph, read 15 Oct, 20:35

Runways

Runway	Length	Width	Surface	Heading, true	Wind along it now	Crosswind now
12 / 30	4,600 ft	60 ft	Concrete	130° / 310°	7 mph head, on 30	2 mph from the right
17 / 35	6,000 ft	100 ft	Concrete	180° / 0°	6 mph head, on 35	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 5 instruments nearest Ulysses 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

UlyssesULS

At an airfield/0.0 mi away/3,053 ft/18 ft below here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

Arkansas River At KendallKENK1

At a river or reservoir gauge/24.5 mi away/3,140 ft/69 ft above here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

US-50 @ K-156 bridge Garden CityKS010

Beside a road/39.3 mi away/2,841 ft/230 ft below here

temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip

measured daily2 instruments

Ulysses 0.9 NNWKS-GT-17