Fort ScottFSK
At an airfield/4.7 mi away/912 ft/72 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Fort Scott National Historic Site, Kansas
National Historic Site in Bourbon County, Kansas56°
76°/65°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 56°·Moderate breeze 16 mph NNW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 20 degrees cooler: a high of 56° after 76° today.
Now. Fort Scott National Historic Site is 56° and mostly cloudy at 11 PM. The dew point is 49°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 16 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 45° by 8 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 56°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 23 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 south-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
14Air quality
80%Humidity
77%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
56feels56
16mph
Today
Oct 15
7665
82%
19mph
Fri
Oct 16
5645
23mph
Sat
Oct 17
5936
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
6637
UV 6
Mon
Oct 19
7143
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7746
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
8052
overcast
56°
76°65°
56°45°
59°36°
66°37°
71°43°
77°46°
80°52°
As of 11:00 PM in Fort Scott National Historic Site, Kansas.
Air quality
The air at Fort Scott National Historic Site
Index 14, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, El Dorado Springs (MO), 38 miles off.
14Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)14Good-
- Ozone9Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 14, good.
GoodModerate
- 14YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Fort Scott National Historic Site
0.23 in in the last 24 hours, 2.05 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.23in
- Last 3 days
- 2.05in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 11%
Visibility
How far you can see at Fort Scott National Historic Site, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 8 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
- National Historic Site
- Area
- 834,000 sq ft
- Height at its point
- 840 ft
- County
- Bourbon County
- State
- Kansas
- Latitude
- 37.8435° N
- Longitude
- 94.7047° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Fort Scott National Historic Site, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.0 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Citizen station CW2856CW2856
In a volunteer observer's own ground/20.4 mi away/918 ft/78 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
StatelineTRDK1
At a river or reservoir gauge/27.8 mi away/810 ft/30 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Fort Scott 0.6 WKS-BB-24
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.0 mi away/874 ft/34 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Mound City 1SSWMODK1
At a cooperative observer's station/21.0 mi away/886 ft/46 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
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