Beside a road/35.8 mi away/2,421 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Golf courses/Kansas/Protection Golf Course
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Protection Golf Course until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 9 degrees cooler: a high of 56° after 65° today.
Now. Protection Golf Course is 54° and clear at 10 PM. The dew point is 45°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 40° 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 82°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 25 mph. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
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.
As of 10:00 PM in Protection Golf Course, Kansas.
Air quality
Index 15, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Woodward (OK), 66 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
None in the last 24 hours; 0.85 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 3 instruments nearest Protection Golf Course, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.7 miles away.
measured now1 instrument
Beside a road/35.8 mi away/2,421 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Protection 0.4 WKS-CM-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/1,873 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
ColdwaterCOLK1
At a cooperative observer's station/9.6 mi away/2,080 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Coldwater (COLK1), 9.6 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 09:00. measured daily
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.