Beside a road/35.3 mi away/2,421 ft/572 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Protection, Kansas
City in Comanche County, Kansas* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures 26-30 degrees possible. * WHERE...Portions of central, south central, southwest, and west central Kansas. * WHEN...From late Friday night 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.
49°
56°/40°
Clear·
Feels like 46°·Gentle breeze 8 mph N
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Protection until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Protection is 49° and clear at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 46°. The dew point is 38°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 56° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 39° by 12 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 60°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
-UV
16Air quality
66%Humidity
4%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
49feels46
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
5640
13mph
Today
Oct 16
5631
21mph
Sat
Oct 17
6036
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6844
15mph
Mon
Oct 19
7349
14mph
Tue
Oct 20
7956
14mph
Wed
Oct 21
8259
16%
14mph
49°
56°40°
56°31°
60°36°
68°44°
73°49°
79°56°
82°59°
As of 1:00 AM in Protection, Kansas.
Air quality
The air at Protection
Index 16, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Woodward (OK), 66 miles off.
16Good
- Ozone16Good-
The days ahead
Highest 70, moderate, Tue Oct 20, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 21, good.
GoodModerate
- 21YesterdayOct 15
- 40TodayOct 16
- 40SatOct 17
- 50SunOct 18
- 60MonOct 19
- 70TueOct 20
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Protection
None in the last 24 hours; 0.85 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.85in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Protection, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Protection, KansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 3 instruments nearest Protection, 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 now1 instrument
Rank-
measured daily2 instruments
Protection 0.4 WKS-CM-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.2 mi away/1,873 ft/24 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
ColdwaterCOLK1
At a cooperative observer's station/9.8 mi away/2,080 ft/231 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Coldwater (COLK1), 9.8 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 09:00. measured daily
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Near Protection
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.