Temperature
56 F at 9 PM; 69 F at its warmest, 3 AM, and 56 F at its coolest, 9 PM.
- Now
- 56F
- 9 PM
- Highest
- 69F
- 3 AM
- Lowest
- 56F
- 9 PM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Strother Field, Kansas
Small airport in Cowley County, Kansas56°
73°/62°
Clear·
Feels like 56°·Moderate breeze 16 mph N
Coming up. Tomorrow is 16 degrees cooler: a high of 57° after 73° today.
Now. Strother Field is 56° and clear at 10 PM. The dew point is 50°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north at 16 mph, gusting to 30 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 43° 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 57°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 23 mph. Frost is possible Saturday morning, a low of 34°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. 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
80%Humidity
2%Cloud
Now
10:00 PM
56feels56
16mph
Today
Oct 15
7362
66%
20mph
Fri
Oct 16
5743
23mph
UV 6
Sat
Oct 17
5934
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
6436
14mph
UV 6
Mon
Oct 19
7044
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7748
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
8155
overcast
56°
73°62°
57°43°
59°34°
64°36°
70°44°
77°48°
81°55°
As of 10:00 PM in Strother Field, Kansas.
Air quality
The air at Strother Field
Index 19, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Wichita (KS), 40 miles off.
19Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)19Good-
- Ozone13Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)9Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 51, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 51YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Strother Field
0.35 in in the last 24 hours, 1.90 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.35in
- Last 3 days
- 1.90in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 18%
Visibility
How far you can see at Strother Field, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- WLD
- ICAO
- KWLD
- IATA
- WLD
- Field elevation
- 1,160 ft
- Serves
- Winfield / Arkansas City
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- WLD
- Wind now
- From 350° at 17 mph, read 15 Oct, 21:54
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 / 31 | 3,137 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 140° / 320° | 15 mph head, on 31 | 8 mph from the right |
| 17 / 35 | 5,506 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 180° / 0° | 17 mph head, on 35 | 3 mph from the left |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Winfield (WLD), Strother Field's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 50 F, the air 80% saturated; the humidity ran from 77% at 8 PM to 99% at 5 AM.
- Dew point now
- 50F
- 9 PM
- Humidity now
- 80%
- Humidity, range
- 77 to 99%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
16 mph from the north northwest at 10 PM; at its strongest 19 mph, 5 PM, with a gust of 33 mph at 1 PM.
- Now
- 16mph
- from the north northwest
- Strongest
- 19mph
- 5 PM
- Highest gust
- 33mph
- 1 PM
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.31 inHg at 10 PM, rising 0.07 inHg over 3 hours; 0.28 inHg higher than a day before.
- Now
- 30.31inHg
- 10 PM
- 3 hours
- +0.07inHg
- rising
- 24 hours
- +0.28inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 1 miles at 1 PM; 10 miles or more now.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 1mi
- 1 PM
- 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 400 ft at 1 AM; a base was reported in 23 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- -
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 400ft
- 1 AM
- Hours with a base reported
- 23
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
Precipitation
0.41 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.12 in, in the hour to 11 AM.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.41in
- Wettest hour
- 0.12in
- 11 AM
- Hours with some
- 13
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Winfield: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Strother Field, 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
WinfieldWLD
At an airfield/0.1 mi away/1,152 ft/8 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Abrams ScanABRK1
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.7 mi away/1,194 ft/34 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
AbramsS2092
At a soil climate station/3.7 mi away/1,194 ft/34 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
bridge over I-35K5000
Beside a road/17.9 mi away/1,156 ft/4 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Winfield 5.9 SWKS-CL-12
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.5 mi away/1,210 ft/50 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Arkansas CityAKCK1
At a cooperative observer's station/7.3 mi away/1,115 ft/45 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 Strother Field
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Winfieldcity, 6 mi
- Arkansas Citycity, 7 mi
- Parkerfieldcity, 7 mi
- Geuda Springscity, 7 mi
- Oxfordcity, 10 mi
- Silverdalecommunity, 11 mi
- New Salemcommunity, 13 mi
- Udallcity, 16 mi
- Dextercity, 18 mi
- Burdencity, 19 mi
- Rockcommunity, 19 mi
- Belle Plainecity, 21 mi
Airports near Strother Field
- Wellington Municipal AirportEGT, 22 mi
- McConnell Air Force BaseIAB, 34 mi
- Augusta Municipal Airport3AU, 35 mi
- Beech Factory AirportBEC, 38 mi
- Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National AirportICT, 40 mi
- Colonel James Jabara AirportAAO, 41 mi
- Captain Jack Thomas El Dorado AirportEQA, 44 mi
- Anthony Municipal AirportANY, 57 mi