Temperature
58 F at 9 PM; 75 F at its warmest, 3 PM, and 58 F at its coolest, 9 PM.
- Now
- 58F
- 9 PM
- Highest
- 75F
- 3 PM
- Lowest
- 58F
- 9 PM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Coming up. Tomorrow is 20 degrees cooler: a high of 56° after 76° today.
Now. Joplin Regional Airport is 57° and light rain at 10 PM. The dew point is 56°, so the air feels a little humid. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 17 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 46° by 7 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 80°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 mph.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% 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 16 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Joplin Regional Airport, Missouri.
Air quality
Index 11, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Alba (MO), 7 miles off.
Yesterday measured 14, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.55 in in the last 24 hours, 1.75 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 / 31 | 6,501 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 138° / 318° | 14 mph head, on 31 | 9 mph from the right |
| 18 / 36 | 6,502 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 182° / 2° | 17 mph head, on 36 | 4 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Joplin (JLN), Joplin Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
58 F at 9 PM; 75 F at its warmest, 3 PM, and 58 F at its coolest, 9 PM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 57 F, the air 96% saturated; the humidity ran from 79% at 2 PM to 98% at 3 AM.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
18 mph at 10 PM; at its strongest 18 mph, 10 PM, with a gust of 26 mph at 8 AM.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.20 inHg at 10 PM, rising 0.08 inHg over 3 hours; 0.17 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 1 miles at 3 AM; 8 miles now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 300 ft at 4 AM; a base was reported in 24 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.62 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.30 in, in the hour to 3 AM.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Joplin: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 6 instruments nearest Joplin Regional Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
JoplinJLN
At an airfield/0.2 mi away/962 ft/19 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Joplin 24 N23908
At a climate reference station/19.1 mi away/952 ft/29 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Joplin 24 NJONM7
At a river or reservoir gauge/19.7 mi away/955 ft/26 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mt VernonS2060
At a soil climate station/34.5 mi away/1,254 ft/273 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Oakland Park 0.6 ESEMO-JS-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.7 mi away/1,037 ft/56 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Diamond 2WDMDM7
At a cooperative observer's station/13.9 mi away/1,070 ft/89 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Diamond 2W (DMDM7), 13.9 miles from here, read 14 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.