Now. Cape Girardeau Regional Airport is 70° and mostly clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 58°, so the air feels a little humid. Gentle breeze from the west at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 51° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 41° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 79°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:20 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:24 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 14 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Cape Girardeau Regional Airport, Missouri.
Air quality
Index 20, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Farrar (MO), 33 miles off.
Yesterday measured 28, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.20 in in the last 24 hours, 1.35 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02 / 20 | 3,997 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt and concrete | 21° / 201° | - | - |
| 10 / 28 | 6,500 ft | 150 ft | Concrete | 106° / 286° | - | - |
Measured here
Every hour from Cape Girardeau (CGI), Cape Girardeau Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
77 F at 6 PM Thursday; 90 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 72 F at its coolest, 6 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 72 F, the air 83% saturated; the humidity ran from 46% at 3 PM Thursday to 100% at 6 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
6 mph from the west at 6 PM Thursday; at its strongest 24 mph, 3 PM Thursday, with a gust of 14 mph at 11 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
29.94 inHg at 6 PM Thursday, steady over 3 hours; 0.08 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
10 miles or more every hour.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 500 ft at 8 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 8 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Cape Girardeau: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Cape Girardeau Regional Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.0 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/335 ft/7 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Dexter ScanDEXM7
At a river or reservoir gauge/36.5 mi away/305 ft/37 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
DexterS2048
At a soil climate station/36.6 mi away/296 ft/46 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Kelso 0.2 SSEMO-SC-11
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.9 mi away/384 ft/42 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Power StationSKSM7
At a cooperative observer's station/23.8 mi away/302 ft/40 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Power Station (SKSM7), 23.8 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.