Elk River AT Elk City LakeECLK1
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.1 mi away/797 ft/4 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Now. Elk City State Park is 58° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 52°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the east-southeast at 1 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 82° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 60° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. Highs stay close to 86° all week. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:59 PM. The Moon is a waning crescent, 15% lit, and rises at 4:12 AM after midnight. The next new Moon is Saturday, Oct 10. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 37 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Elk City State Park, Kansas.
Air quality
Index 33, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Chanute (KS), 34 miles off.
Yesterday measured 37, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Wed 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Mon 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Wed 7 PM, lowest 10 miles Wed 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 5 instruments nearest Elk City State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Elk River AT Elk City LakeECLK1
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.1 mi away/797 ft/4 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
IndependenceIDP
At an airfield/5.7 mi away/823 ft/22 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Beside a road/26.5 mi away/1,000 ft/199 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Independence 2.8 SSWKS-MG-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.5 mi away/833 ft/32 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
IndependenceINDK1
At a cooperative observer's station/4.5 mi away/810 ft/9 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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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.