Salt Fork Arkansas River nr Alva07148400
At a river or reservoir gauge/27.1 mi away/1,293 ft/159 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 13 degrees cooler: a high of 59° after 72° today.
Now. Great Salt Plains State Park is 55° and clear at 11 PM. The dew point is 50°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north at 14 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 43° 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 82°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 24 mph. Frost is possible Saturday morning, a low of 35°.
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 17 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Great Salt Plains State Park, Oklahoma.
Air quality
Index 15, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Woodward (OK), 61 miles off.
Highest 70, moderate, Tue Oct 20, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 21, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.25 in in the last 24 hours, 1.15 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 4 instruments nearest Great Salt Plains State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.6 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
Salt Fork Arkansas River nr Alva07148400
At a river or reservoir gauge/27.1 mi away/1,293 ft/159 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/28.0 mi away/1,473 ft/339 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Jet 6.0 NNEOK-AL-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.6 mi away/1,138 ft/4 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/1.7 mi away/1,158 ft/24 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.