Parks/Missouri/Prairie State Park

Prairie State Park, Missouri

State Park in Barton County, Missouri

54° 57°/45°

Mostly cloudy· Feels like 54°·Gentle breeze 13 mph N

Now. Prairie State Park is 54° and mostly cloudy at 1 AM. The dew point is 50°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north at 13 mph.

Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 37° 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 Thursday, near 82°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 36°.

The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:40 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:44 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.

0UV Low

11Air quality

82%Humidity

87%Cloud

Now

1:00 AM

54feels54

13mph

Today

Oct 16

5745

21mph

Sat

Oct 17

6036

UV 6

Sun

Oct 18

6637

UV 6

Mon

Oct 19

7143

Tue

Oct 20

7747

Wed

Oct 21

8052

Thu

Oct 22

8256

54°

57°45°

60°36°

66°37°

71°43°

77°47°

80°52°

82°56°

As of 1:00 AM in Prairie State Park, Missouri.

Air quality

The air at Prairie State Park

Index 11, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Alba (MO), 21 miles off.

11Good

Ozone11Good19 ppb21.5 mi
Coarse particles (PM10)9Good-

The days ahead

Yesterday measured 14, good.

GoodModerate

14YesterdayOct 15

Smoke, the next 43 hours

No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.

Precipitation

What has fallen at Prairie State Park

0.66 in in the last 24 hours, 2.00 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.

Last 24 hours: 0.66in
Last 3 days: 2.00in

3 days agoLast 24 hours 33%

Visibility

How far you can see at Prairie State Park, the next 43 hours

Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 8 AM.

Park

Designation: State Park
Area: 6.19 sq mi
Height at its point: 953 ft
County: Barton County
State: Missouri
Latitude: 37.5212° N
Longitude: 94.5893° W

What is measuring near here

The 6 instruments nearest Prairie State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.5 miles away.

measured now4 instruments

Joplin 24 NJONM7

At a river or reservoir gauge/6.5 mi away/955 ft/2 ft above here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

Joplin 24 N23908

At a climate reference station/7.0 mi away/952 ft/1 ft below here

temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip

JoplinJLN

At an airfield/26.0 mi away/962 ft/9 ft above here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

Citizen station KE0RUZKE0RUZ

In a volunteer observer's own ground/28.3 mi away/1,027 ft/74 ft above here