HutchinsonHUT
At an airfield/3.0 mi away/1,542 ft/53 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Sand Hills State Park, Kansas
State Park in Reno County, Kansas* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures around 30 possible. * WHERE...McPherson, Rice, and Reno Counties. * 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.
51°
56°/41°
Clear·
Feels like 51°·Gentle breeze 12 mph N
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Sand Hills State Park until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Sand Hills State Park is 51° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 47°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 56° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 81°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:52 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:55 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 12 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
19Air quality
86%Humidity
1%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
51feels51
12mph
Today
Oct 16
5641
23mph
UV 6
Sat
Oct 17
5932
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
6436
19mph
Mon
Oct 19
7145
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7747
13mph
Wed
Oct 21
8154
13mph
Thu
Oct 22
8158
17%
13mph
51°
56°41°
59°32°
64°36°
71°45°
77°47°
81°54°
81°58°
As of 12:00 AM in Sand Hills State Park, Kansas.
Air quality
The air at Sand Hills State Park
Index 19, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Wichita (KS), 41 miles off.
19Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)19Good-
- Ozone15Good12 ppb24.4 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)7Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 51, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 51YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Sand Hills State Park
0.05 in in the last 24 hours, 0.57 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.05in
- Last 3 days
- 0.57in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 9%
Visibility
How far you can see at Sand Hills State Park, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 7 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
- State Park
- Area
- 1.76 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,595 ft
- County
- Reno County
- State
- Kansas
- Latitude
- 38.1083° N
- Longitude
- 97.8530° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Sand Hills State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.9 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
K-61 @ K-153 Interchange McPhersonK5MCP
Beside a road/20.5 mi away/1,495 ft/100 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station DW8414DW8414
In a volunteer observer's own ground/22.2 mi away/1,404 ft/191 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Cowskin C At 119Th St At Wichita07144480
At a river or reservoir gauge/34.7 mi away/1,313 ft/282 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Hutchinson 4.0 ENEKS-RN-58
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.9 mi away/1,621 ft/26 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
HutchinsonHUTK1
At a cooperative observer's station/3.5 mi away/1,535 ft/60 ft below 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
Elsewhere in Kansas
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Sand Hills State Park
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