At a river or reservoir gauge/1.0 mi away/1,316 ft/58 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Kansas
National Preserve in Chase County, Kansas51°
70°/58°
Clear·
Feels like 51°·Gentle breeze 10 mph NNW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 16 degrees cooler: a high of 54° after 70° today.
Now. Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve is 51° and clear at 11 PM. The dew point is 48°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 10 mph, gusting to 20 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 41° 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 81°, 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 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 14 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
15Air quality
86%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
51feels51
now, clear
Today
Oct 15
7058
72%
15mph
Fri
Oct 16
5441
20mph
Sat
Oct 17
5933
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
6537
13mph
UV 6
Mon
Oct 19
7247
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7750
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
8156
overcast
51°
70°58°
54°41°
59°33°
65°37°
72°47°
77°50°
81°56°
As of 11:00 PM in Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Kansas.
Air quality
The air at Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve
Index 15, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Topeka (KS), 62 miles off.
15Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)12Good-
- Ozone15Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)6Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 43, good.
GoodModerate
- 43YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve
0.08 in in the last 24 hours, 1.35 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.08in
- Last 3 days
- 1.35in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 6%
Visibility
How far you can see at Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, 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 Preserve
- Area
- 17 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,374 ft
- County
- Chase County
- State
- Kansas
- Latitude
- 38.4403° N
- Longitude
- 96.5774° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, 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 now4 instruments
I-35 bridge over Sharps CreekK5004
Beside a road/20.2 mi away/1,464 ft/90 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
EmporiaEMP
At an airfield/22.3 mi away/1,207 ft/167 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW1204FW1204
In a volunteer observer's own ground/38.2 mi away/1,321 ft/53 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
At a cooperative observer's station/1.2 mi away/1,253 ft/121 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Cottonwood Falls 0.7 SSEKS-CS-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.9 mi away/1,231 ft/143 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
Elsewhere in Kansas
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Strong Citycity, 4 mi
- Cottonwood Fallscity, 5 mi
- Elmdalecity, 6 mi
- Wilseycity, 15 mi
- Dunlapcity, 15 mi
- Council Grovecity, 16 mi
- Burdickcommunity, 17 mi
- Americuscity, 18 mi
- Cedar Pointcity, 18 mi
- Matfield Greencity, 19 mi
- Lincolnvillecity, 21 mi
- Emporiacity, 22 mi