El DoradoEQA
At an airfield/3.9 mi away/1,386 ft/65 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
El Dorado, Kansas
City in Butler County, Kansas* WHAT...Temperatures as low as 33 will result in frost formation. * WHERE...Portions of central, east central, south central, and southeast Kansas. * WHEN...From 1 AM to 9 AM CDT Saturday. * IMPACTS...Frost could harm sensitive outdoor vegetation. Sensitive outdoor plants may be killed if left uncovered.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
44°
55°/43°
Clear·
Feels like 38°·Moderate breeze 14 mph NNW
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for El Dorado until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. El Dorado is 44° and clear at 6 AM. With the wind it feels like 38°. The dew point is 34°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 14 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 55° by 2 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 week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 82°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:49 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:52 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 13 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
23Air quality
65%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
6:00 AM
44feels38
14mph
Today
Oct 16
5543
25mph
Sat
Oct 17
5934
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
6437
14mph
UV 6
Mon
Oct 19
7245
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7550
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
8055
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
8259
overcast
44°
55°43°
59°34°
64°37°
72°45°
75°50°
80°55°
82°59°
As of 6:00 AM in El Dorado, Kansas.
Air quality
The air at El Dorado
Index 23, good, led by fine particles. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Wichita (KS), 26 miles off.
23Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)23Good-
- Ozone21Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)19Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 19, good.
GoodModerate
- 19YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at El Dorado
0.06 in in the last 24 hours, 1.70 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.06in
- Last 3 days
- 1.70in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 4%
Visibility
How far you can see at El Dorado, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 8 miles Sat 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over El Dorado, KansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest El Dorado, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Rank706of 1,079
Citizen station FW9155FW9155
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.5 mi away/1,310 ft/11 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
I-35 bridge Walnut River/El Dorado LakeK5003
Beside a road/9.1 mi away/1,341 ft/20 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Cowskin Creek AT Wichita at KelloggKEGK1
At a river or reservoir gauge/34.3 mi away/1,325 ft/4 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
El Dorado 0.3 WSWKS-BU-58
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.2 mi away/1,354 ft/33 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
El DoradoELDK1
At a cooperative observer's station/0.9 mi away/1,289 ft/32 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at El Dorado, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 3.9 mi from El Dorado, Kansas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 5:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
44.6 F with a dew point of 33.8 F, 66 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,500 ft up.
The wind
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 13 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 26 mph.
The full report of El Dorado, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at El Dorado (ELDK1), 0.9 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
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