St. JosephSTJ
At an airfield/18.4 mi away/810 ft/28 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Lewis and Clark State Park until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 15 degrees cooler: a high of 55° after 70° today.
Now. Lewis and Clark State Park is 54° and partly cloudy at 9 PM. The dew point is 48°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 13 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 44° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 79°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 mph. Frost is possible Saturday morning, a low of 33°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% lit, and sets at 9:44 PM. 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 sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 12 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Lewis and Clark State Park, Missouri.
Air quality
Index 18, good, led by ozone. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, St. Joseph (MO), 31 miles off.
Yesterday measured 48, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
0.07 in in the last 24 hours, 0.29 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 8 miles Sat 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 4 instruments nearest Lewis and Clark State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 15.9 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
St. JosephSTJ
At an airfield/18.4 mi away/810 ft/28 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW2177GW2177
In a volunteer observer's own ground/20.1 mi away/898 ft/116 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
St. Joseph 4.3 SSWMO-BC-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/15.9 mi away/853 ft/71 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Smithville LakeSLKM7
At a cooperative observer's station/28.6 mi away/902 ft/120 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Smithville Lake (SLKM7), 28.6 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.