Martin Machine is seeking 10 employees as the company has moved 12 hour days to keep up with demand for their product while an expansion at Park Aerospace as expanded to 114 employees - with planned expansion in 2022 when an expansion project is expected to be complete. According to a Harvey County Economic Development Council report to the commission this week, one of the county's largest employers - Excel Industries of Hesston, has increased the company workforce to 635 employees, and has 40 positions open awaiting someone to fill them with a starting wage of more than $15 an hour. This news comes as employers have been struggling to hire - help wanted signs seem to be everywhere.
Please review our full terms contained on our Terms of Service page.At the state level, the rate is well below the 6.1 percent in September 2020. We further caution that our travel scores are only as good as the data that underpin them, that weather conditions at any given location and time are unpredictable and variable, and that the definition of the scores reflects a particular set of preferences that may not agree with those of any particular reader. While having the tremendous advantages of temporal and spatial completeness, these reconstructions: (1) are based on computer models that may have model-based errors, (2) are coarsely sampled on a 50 km grid and are therefore unable to reconstruct the local variations of many microclimates, and (3) have particular difficulty with the weather in some coastal areas, especially small islands. We draw particular cautious attention to our reliance on the MERRA-2 model-based reconstructions for a number of important data series. We assume no responsibility for any decisions made on the basis of the content presented on this site. Weather data is prone to errors, outages, and other defects. The information on this site is provided as is, without any assurances as to its accuracy or suitability for any purpose. Maps are © Esri, with data from National Geographic, Esri, DeLorme, NAVTEQ, UNEP-WCMC, USGS, NASA, ESA, METI, NRCAN, GEBCO, NOAA, and iPC. Time zones for airports and weather stations are provided by. Names, locations, and time zones of places and some airports come from the GeoNames Geographical Database. Land Use data comes from the Global Land Cover SHARE database, published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.Įlevation data comes from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM), published by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. This reanalysis combines a variety of wide-area measurements in a state-of-the-art global meteorological model to reconstruct the hourly history of weather throughout the world on a 50-kilometer grid. Please note that each source's contribution is adjusted for elevation and the relative change present in the MERRA-2 data.Īll data relating to the Sun's position (e.g., sunrise and sunset) are computed using astronomical formulas from the book, Astronomical Algorithms 2nd Edition, by Jean Meeus.Īll other weather data, including cloud cover, precipitation, wind speed and direction, and solar flux, come from NASA's MERRA-2 Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis. To get a sense of how much these sources agree with each other, you can view a comparison of Newton and the stations that contribute to our estimates of its temperature history and climate. Salina Municipal Airport (KSLN, 2.0%, 55 mi, north, -177 ft elevation change).Hutchinson Municipal Airport (KHUT, 5%, 28 mi, west, 98 ft elevation change).Colonel James Jabara Airport (KAAO, 8%, 22 mi, south, -23 ft elevation change).Newton City-County Airport (KEWK, 85%, 4 mi, east, 89 ft elevation change).The stations contributing to this reconstruction are: The estimated value at Newton is computed as the weighted average of the individual contributions from each station, with weights proportional to the inverse of the distance between Newton and a given station.
There are 4 weather stations near enough to contribute to our estimation of the temperature and dew point in Newton.įor each station, the records are corrected for the elevation difference between that station and Newton according to the International Standard Atmosphere, and by the relative change present in the MERRA-2 satellite-era reanalysis between the two locations. This report illustrates the typical weather in Newton, based on a statistical analysis of historical hourly weather reports and model reconstructions from Januto December 31, 2016.