Temperature
71 F at 9 PM; 79 F at its warmest, 4 PM, and 71 F at its coolest, 9 PM.
- Now
- 71F
- 9 PM
- Highest
- 79F
- 4 PM
- Lowest
- 71F
- 9 PM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Coming up. Tomorrow is 24 degrees cooler: a high of 58° after 82° today.
Now. Branson West Airport is 70° and overcast at 9 PM. The dew point is 68°, so the air feels oppressive. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 9 mph, gusting to 25 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 46° by 8 AM, with some cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 81°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% 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 17 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Branson West Airport, Missouri.
Air quality
Index 25, good, led by ozone. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Springfield (MO), 39 miles off.
Yesterday measured 36, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
0.08 in in the last 24 hours, 1.10 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 7 miles Thu 9 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03 / 21 | 5,002 ft | 75 ft | Concrete | - | - | - |
Measured here
Every hour from Branson West Muni (FWB), Branson West Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
71 F at 9 PM; 79 F at its warmest, 4 PM, and 71 F at its coolest, 9 PM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 65 F, the air 83% saturated; the humidity ran from 57% at 4 PM to 100% at 10 PM Wednesday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
8 mph from the northwest at 9 PM; at its strongest 13 mph, 9 AM, with a gust of 21 mph at 9 PM.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.08 inHg at 9 PM, rising 0.07 inHg over 3 hours; 0.05 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
0.03 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.02 in, in the hour to 8 AM.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Branson West Muni: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Branson West 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/1,292 ft/56 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Cassville RAWSCRWM7
A remote fire weather station/19.2 mi away/1,494 ft/146 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mt VernonS2060
At a soil climate station/36.8 mi away/1,254 ft/94 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Reeds Srings 5.9 SSEMO-SE-17
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.0 mi away/1,282 ft/66 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
GalenaGALM7
At a cooperative observer's station/8.1 mi away/1,007 ft/341 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.