Cimarron River near Buffalo07157950
At a river or reservoir gauge/13.7 mi away/1,600 ft/122 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Now. Alabaster Caverns State Park is 44° and clear at 7 AM. With the wind it feels like 36°. The dew point is 29°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 17 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 59° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° by 7 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 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 83°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 62°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:59 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:05 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 15 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 7:00 AM in Alabaster Caverns State Park, Oklahoma.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 7 AM from its reporting area, Woodward (OK), 28 miles off.
Highest 70, moderate, Tue Oct 20, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 18, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.67 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 6 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 8 miles Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 4 instruments nearest Alabaster Caverns State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.6 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
Cimarron River near Buffalo07157950
At a river or reservoir gauge/13.7 mi away/1,600 ft/122 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/27.1 mi away/1,473 ft/249 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Freedom 0.8 NOK-WD-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.6 mi away/1,559 ft/163 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
WaynokaWAYO2
At a cooperative observer's station/19.2 mi away/1,483 ft/239 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Waynoka (WAYO2), 19.2 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.