Elk River AT Elk City LakeECLK1
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.1 mi away/797 ft/4 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 18 degrees cooler: a high of 57° after 75° today.
Now. Elk City State Park is 58° and mostly cloudy at 10 PM. The dew point is 52°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north at 14 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 45° 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 80°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 24 mph. Frost is possible Saturday morning, a low of 36°.
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 Elk City State Park, Kansas.
Air quality
Index 11, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Chanute (KS), 34 miles off.
Yesterday measured 12, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.78 in in the last 24 hours, 2.50 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 5 instruments nearest Elk City State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Elk River AT Elk City LakeECLK1
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.1 mi away/797 ft/4 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
IndependenceIDP
At an airfield/5.7 mi away/823 ft/22 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Beside a road/26.5 mi away/1,000 ft/199 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Independence 2.8 SSWKS-MG-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.5 mi away/833 ft/32 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
IndependenceINDK1
At a cooperative observer's station/4.5 mi away/810 ft/9 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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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.