Hays_MuniHYS
At an airfield/3.9 mi away/1,998 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Lewis Field until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Lewis Field is 49° and mostly cloudy at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 44°. The dew point is 38°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north at 14 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 39° by 6 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 55°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 28 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 29°.
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 13 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Lewis Field, Kansas.
Air quality
Index 14, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Cedar Bluff (KS), 24 miles off.
Yesterday measured 23, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.30 in in the last 24 hours, 0.65 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 5 instruments nearest Lewis Field, 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 now3 instruments
Hays_MuniHYS
At an airfield/3.9 mi away/1,998 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
I-70 - Walker InterchangeK5WKR
Beside a road/8.5 mi away/1,972 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW6744GW6744
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.2 mi away/1,944 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Hays Experimental StationHASK1
On a farm or research station/0.6 mi away/2,024 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Hays 0.9 SSWKS-EL-106
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.8 mi away/1,990 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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Snow on the ground
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.