Flint Creek near Kansas07196000
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.3 mi away/855 ft/288 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 20 degrees cooler: a high of 57° after 77° today.
Now. Kansas is 59° and overcast at 10 PM. The dew point is 59°, so the air feels a little humid. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 14 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 46° by 8 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 79°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph.
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 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 day is 11 hours 18 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Kansas, Oklahoma.
Air quality
Index 12, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Pryor (OK), 26 miles off.
Yesterday measured 17, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.27 in in the last 24 hours, 1.30 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Thu 10 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Kansas, OklahomaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Kansas, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.3 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Flint Creek near Kansas07196000
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.3 mi away/855 ft/288 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/22.2 mi away/873 ft/270 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW2494DW2494
In a volunteer observer's own ground/28.7 mi away/642 ft/501 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Oaks 3.2 SOK-CH-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.7 mi away/964 ft/179 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
SpavinawSPVO2
At a cooperative observer's station/19.3 mi away/646 ft/497 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 28.7 mi from Kansas, Oklahoma. From its report of undefined: 3 of its 4 sheets.
From the northwest (313 degrees) at 8 mph, gusting 17 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale.
At 642 ft above sea level, 2 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 29.23 inHg and the temperature at 56.7 F; the station's altimeter setting of 30.12 inHg means its barometer reads 29.43 inHg; it reports 61.0 F, 4.3 F warmer than standard.
On Oct 16 the noon sun stands 45 degrees above the horizon at 36.30 N, and the day is 11 h 06 min long. Level ground there takes 70 per cent of the noon sunlight a surface facing the sun would.
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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.