El DoradoEQA
At an airfield/5.9 mi away/1,386 ft/6 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
El Dorado State Park, Kansas
State Park in Butler County, Kansas* WHAT...Temperatures as low as 33 will result in frost formation. * WHERE...Portions of central, east central, south central, and southeast Kansas. * WHEN...From 1 AM to 9 AM CDT Saturday. * IMPACTS...Frost could harm sensitive outdoor vegetation. Sensitive outdoor plants may be killed if left uncovered.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
50°
55°/43°
Clear·
Feels like 45°·Moderate breeze 13 mph N
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for El Dorado State Park until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. El Dorado State Park is 50° and clear at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 45°. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north at 13 mph, gusting to 24 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 54° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 35° by 6 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 sun is strong around midday: UV index 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 81°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:48 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:51 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. After dark, 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 13 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
24Air quality
63%Humidity
1%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
50feels45
13mph
Today
Oct 16
5543
24mph
UV 6
Sat
Oct 17
5834
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
6337
14mph
UV 6
Mon
Oct 19
7046
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7650
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
8057
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
8160
overcast
50°
55°43°
58°34°
63°37°
70°46°
76°50°
80°57°
81°60°
As of 2:00 AM in El Dorado State Park, Kansas.
Air quality
The air at El Dorado State Park
Index 24, good, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Wichita (KS), 32 miles off.
24Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)24Good-
- Ozone13Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)8Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 18, good.
GoodModerate
- 18YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at El Dorado State Park
0.13 in in the last 24 hours, 1.90 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.13in
- Last 3 days
- 1.90in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 7%
Visibility
How far you can see at El Dorado State Park, the next 42 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
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 6.56 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,380 ft
- County
- Butler County
- State
- Kansas
- Latitude
- 37.8395° N
- Longitude
- 96.7495° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest El Dorado State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.9 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
I-35 bridge Walnut River/El Dorado LakeK5003
Beside a road/6.5 mi away/1,341 ft/39 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station FW9155FW9155
In a volunteer observer's own ground/14.3 mi away/1,310 ft/70 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Fall River AT Fall River LakeFLLK1
At a river or reservoir gauge/39.1 mi away/1,020 ft/360 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
El Dorado 1.8 NEKS-BU-50
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.9 mi away/1,341 ft/39 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
El DoradoELDK1
At a cooperative observer's station/5.4 mi away/1,289 ft/91 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at El Dorado (ELDK1), 5.4 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
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