SikestonSIK
At an airfield/21.2 mi away/303 ft/3 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 27 degrees cooler: a high of 63° after 90° today.
Now. Hunter-Dawson State Historic Site is 73° and mostly clear at 11 PM. The dew point is 59°, so the air feels a little humid. Light breeze from the west-southwest at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 56° by 8 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. Air quality is moderate (index 51): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 77°, and the coolest Saturday, near 62°. Rain is possible tomorrow (32%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 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 south. 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 18 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Hunter-Dawson State Historic Site, Missouri.
Air quality
Index 51, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Dyersburg (TN), 40 miles off.
Yesterday measured 34, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
0.03 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 7 miles Fri 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Hunter-Dawson State Historic Site, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
SikestonSIK
At an airfield/21.2 mi away/303 ft/3 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW0268DW0268
In a volunteer observer's own ground/25.6 mi away/265 ft/35 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
DexterS2048
At a soil climate station/25.8 mi away/296 ft/4 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Dexter ScanDEXM7
At a river or reservoir gauge/26.0 mi away/305 ft/5 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
New Madrid 0.4 ESEMO-NM-11
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.2 mi away/301 ft/1 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
East PrairieEPRM7
At a cooperative observer's station/16.1 mi away/305 ft/5 ft above 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.