NortonNRN
At an airfield/3.7 mi away/2,362 ft/51 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Prairie Dog State Park, Kansas
State Park in Norton County, Kansas* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 29 possible. * WHERE...Portions of northwest and west central Kansas and southwest Nebraska. * 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.
45°
55°/37°
Clear·
Feels like 38°·Moderate breeze 15 mph N
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Prairie Dog State Park until 10 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 8 degrees warmer: a high of 63° after 55° today.
Now. Prairie Dog State Park is 45° and clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 38°. The dew point is 32°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north at 15 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 52° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. 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 63°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:59 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:57 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 9 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
15Air quality
57%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
45feels38
15mph
Today
Oct 16
5537
21mph
Sat
Oct 17
6331
16mph
Sun
Oct 18
6940
16mph
Mon
Oct 19
6943
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7645
12mph
Wed
Oct 21
8155
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7958
25%
13mph
45°
55°37°
63°31°
69°40°
69°43°
76°45°
81°55°
79°58°
As of 12:00 AM in Prairie Dog State Park, Kansas.
Air quality
The air at Prairie Dog State Park
Index 15, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Cedar Bluff (KS), 72 miles off.
15Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)15Good-
- Ozone15Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)10Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 23, good.
GoodModerate
- 23YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Prairie Dog State Park
0.17 in in the last 24 hours, 0.34 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.17in
- Last 3 days
- 0.34in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 50%
Visibility
How far you can see at Prairie Dog State Park, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 7 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 1.49 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 2,311 ft
- County
- Norton County
- State
- Kansas
- Latitude
- 39.8080° N
- Longitude
- 99.9357° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Prairie Dog State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
PRAIRIE DOG CREEK 4 E Clayton 4eCLNK1
At a river or reservoir gauge/9.2 mi away/2,362 ft/51 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
K-383 - 2 mi. SW of JenningsK5HJN
Beside a road/21.4 mi away/2,522 ft/211 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station EW3001EW3001
In a volunteer observer's own ground/21.5 mi away/2,011 ft/300 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
PhillipsburgS2093
At a soil climate station/32.2 mi away/1,986 ft/325 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Norton DamNOOK1
At a dam/0.2 mi away/2,356 ft/45 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Norton 1.3 SSWKS-NT-14
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.1 mi away/2,266 ft/45 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
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