Beside a road/3.3 mi away/991 ft/93 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Coming up. Tomorrow is 15 degrees cooler: a high of 54° after 69° today.
Now. Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park is 53° and clear at 10 PM. The dew point is 48°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the northwest at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 42° 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 79°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 32°.
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 13 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park, Kansas.
Air quality
Index 14, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Topeka (KS), 2 miles off.
Yesterday measured 43, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.06 in in the last 24 hours, 2.00 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 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 7 instruments nearest Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.7 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Beside a road/3.3 mi away/991 ft/93 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Topeka (Top)TOP
At an airfield/3.7 mi away/886 ft/12 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW4820FW4820
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.1 mi away/1,041 ft/143 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
08S 15E 28Dddd01 Pbpn MW3391907095441901
At a river or reservoir gauge/19.7 mi away/1,083 ft/185 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Ku-NesaS2147
At a soil climate station/26.0 mi away/1,102 ft/204 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Topeka 1.2 SSWKS-SN-63
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.7 mi away/962 ft/64 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Topeka NWSTFOK1
At a cooperative observer's station/3.4 mi away/880 ft/18 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Topeka NWS (TFOK1), 3.4 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 19:00. 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.