RussellRSL
At an airfield/16.4 mi away/1,864 ft/350 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Wilson State Park, Kansas
State Park in Russell County, Kansas* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as the upper 20s are possible. * WHERE...Barton, Ellsworth, Lincoln, McPherson, Rice, Russell, Saline, and Reno Counties. * WHEN...From late tonight 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.
42°
56°/40°
Partly cloudy·
Feels like 34°·Moderate breeze 19 mph NNW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Wilson State Park until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Wilson State Park is 42° and partly cloudy at 7 AM. With the wind it feels like 34°. The dew point is 33°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 19 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 56° by 4 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 week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 82°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 63°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is Sunday, with wind to 21 mph. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:54 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 11 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
19Air quality
70%Humidity
53%Cloud
Now
7:00 AM
42feels34
19mph
Today
Oct 16
5640
24mph
Sat
Oct 17
6332
13mph
Sun
Oct 18
6739
21mph
Mon
Oct 19
7147
13mph
Tue
Oct 20
7650
15mph
Wed
Oct 21
8156
14mph
Thu
Oct 22
8260
14%
16mph
42°
56°40°
63°32°
67°39°
71°47°
76°50°
81°56°
82°60°
As of 7:00 AM in Wilson State Park, Kansas.
Air quality
The air at Wilson State Park
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 7 AM from its reporting area, Cedar Bluff (KS), 68 miles off.
19Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)14Good-
- Ozone19Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)10Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 23, good.
GoodModerate
- 23YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Visibility
How far you can see at Wilson State Park, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 9 miles Sat 6 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 1.41 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,514 ft
- County
- Russell County
- State
- Kansas
- Latitude
- 38.9115° N
- Longitude
- 98.5106° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Wilson State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
I-70 @ MP 229 Lincoln Co.K5ELW
Beside a road/24.2 mi away/1,737 ft/223 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW6744GW6744
In a volunteer observer's own ground/34.6 mi away/1,944 ft/430 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
South Fork Solomon 1 S OsborneOSBK1
At a river or reservoir gauge/38.6 mi away/1,588 ft/74 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Wilson LakeWLSK1
At a cooperative observer's station/4.0 mi away/1,509 ft/5 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Dorrance 2.8 NKS-RS-48
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.8 mi away/1,802 ft/288 ft above 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 Wilson State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
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