Neosho River At Council Grove LakeCNGK1
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.1 mi away/1,325 ft/90 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 15 degrees cooler: a high of 54° after 69° today.
Now. Flint Hills Trail State Park is 54° and clear at 10 PM. The dew point is 48°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north-northwest at 5 mph, gusting to 20 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 42° by 6 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 54°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 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 14 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Flint Hills Trail State Park, Kansas.
Air quality
Index 14, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Topeka (KS), 48 miles off.
Yesterday measured 43, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.05 in in the last 24 hours, 1.15 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 8 miles Sat 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 7 instruments nearest Flint Hills Trail State Park, 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 now5 instruments
Neosho River At Council Grove LakeCNGK1
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.1 mi away/1,325 ft/90 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
I-335 bridge over Missouri Pacific RRK5005
Beside a road/23.8 mi away/1,242 ft/7 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station FW1204FW1204
In a volunteer observer's own ground/27.0 mi away/1,321 ft/86 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
EmporiaEMP
At an airfield/27.5 mi away/1,207 ft/28 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Manhattan 6 SSW53974
At a climate reference station/31.2 mi away/1,137 ft/98 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Council Grove 0.3 NNEKS-MR-11
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/1,238 ft/3 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Council GroveCNGK1
At a cooperative observer's station/2.1 mi away/1,325 ft/90 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.