At a river or reservoir gauge/1.0 mi away/1,316 ft/58 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Kansas
National Preserve in Chase County, Kansas60°
76°/54°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 60°·Light air 2 mph SSE
Coming up. Tomorrow is 10 degrees warmer: a high of 86° after 76° today.
Now. Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve is 60° and mostly clear at 10 PM. The dew point is 47°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the south-southeast at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 54° by 4 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 86°, and the coolest Thursday, near 81°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky now. The Moon is a waning crescent, 23% lit, and rises at 3:01 AM after midnight. The next new Moon is Saturday, Oct 10. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 38 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
22Air quality
60%Humidity
15%Cloud
Now
10:00 PM
60feels60
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 5
7654
clear day
Wed
Oct 7
8659
UV 6
Thu
Oct 8
8158
mostly clear day
Fri
Oct 9
8457
overcast
Sat
Oct 10
8562
overcast
Sun
Oct 11
8563
overcast
Mon
Oct 12
8264
12%
60°
76°54°
86°59°
81°58°
84°57°
85°62°
85°63°
82°64°
As of 10:00 PM in Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Kansas.
Air quality
The air at Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve
Index 22, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Topeka (KS), 62 miles off.
22Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)15Good-
- Ozone22Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)6Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 35, good.
GoodModerate
- 35YesterdayOct 4
Smoke, the next 46 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Wed 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve
None in the last 3 days, to Mon 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Wed 7 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- National Preserve
- Area
- 17 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,374 ft
- County
- Chase County
- State
- Kansas
- Latitude
- 38.4403° N
- Longitude
- 96.5774° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
I-35 bridge over Sharps CreekK5004
Beside a road/20.2 mi away/1,464 ft/90 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
EmporiaEMP
At an airfield/22.3 mi away/1,207 ft/167 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW1204FW1204
In a volunteer observer's own ground/38.2 mi away/1,321 ft/53 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
At a cooperative observer's station/1.2 mi away/1,253 ft/121 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Cottonwood Falls 0.7 SSEKS-CS-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.9 mi away/1,231 ft/143 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Kansas
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Strong Citycity, 4 mi
- Cottonwood Fallscity, 5 mi
- Elmdalecity, 6 mi
- Wilseycity, 15 mi
- Dunlapcity, 15 mi
- Council Grovecity, 16 mi
- Burdickcommunity, 17 mi
- Americuscity, 18 mi
- Cedar Pointcity, 18 mi
- Matfield Greencity, 19 mi
- Lincolnvillecity, 21 mi
- Emporiacity, 22 mi