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At an airfield/4.0 mi away/2,592 ft/130 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Ford County State Park, Kansas
State Park in Ford County, Kansas* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 25 possible. * WHERE...Portions of central, south central, southwest, and west central Kansas. * WHEN...From late Friday night through Saturday morning. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
50°
62°/50°
Clear·
Feels like 50°·Gentle breeze 10 mph N
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Ford County State Park until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Ford County State Park is 50° and clear at 9 PM. The dew point is 44°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north at 10 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 39° 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 81°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 24 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 30°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% lit, and sets at 10:10 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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 15 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
18Air quality
86%Humidity
2%Cloud
Now
9:00 PM
50feels50
now, clear
Today
Oct 15
6250
16%
26mph
Fri
Oct 16
5538
24mph
UV 6
Sat
Oct 17
6130
15mph
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
6737
23mph
UV 6
Mon
Oct 19
7345
15mph
Tue
Oct 20
7748
21mph
Wed
Oct 21
8156
20mph
50°
62°50°
55°38°
61°30°
67°37°
73°45°
77°48°
81°56°
As of 9:00 PM in Ford County State Park, Kansas.
Air quality
The air at Ford County State Park
Index 18, good, led by ozone. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Cedar Bluff (KS), 67 miles off.
18Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)12Good-
- Ozone18Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)6Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 23, good.
GoodModerate
- 23YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Ford County State Park
0.39 in in the last 24 hours, 0.71 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.39in
- Last 3 days
- 0.71in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 55%
Visibility
How far you can see at Ford County State Park, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 7 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 0.48 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 2,462 ft
- County
- Ford County
- State
- Kansas
- Latitude
- 37.8104° N
- Longitude
- 99.9238° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Ford County State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.3 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Citizen station CW9785CW9785
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.7 mi away/2,585 ft/123 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Beside a road/13.3 mi away/2,421 ft/41 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Wright 3.7 WNWKS-FO-51
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.3 mi away/2,540 ft/78 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Dodge CityDCAK1
At a cooperative observer's station/7.7 mi away/2,513 ft/51 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
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