Citizen station DW8414DW8414
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.1 mi away/1,404 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Golf courses/Kansas/Sand Creek Station
Coming up. Tomorrow is 13 degrees cooler: a high of 55° after 68° today.
Now. Sand Creek Station is 53° and clear at 10 PM. The dew point is 50°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 42° 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 79°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 28 mph. Frost is possible Saturday morning, a low of 33°.
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 15 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Sand Creek Station, Kansas.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Wichita (KS), 22 miles off.
Yesterday measured 51, moderate.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.17 in in the last 24 hours, 1.40 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 6 instruments nearest Sand Creek Station, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station DW8414DW8414
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.1 mi away/1,404 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
NewtonEWK
At an airfield/5.6 mi away/1,532 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Beside a road/15.9 mi away/1,382 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Cowskin C At 119Th St At Wichita07144480
At a river or reservoir gauge/22.8 mi away/1,313 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
NewtonNWTK1
At a cooperative observer's station/0.6 mi away/1,430 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Newton 2.0 SKS-HV-46
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.2 mi away/1,445 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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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.