Schell-OsageS2193
At a soil climate station/13.8 mi away/814 ft/59 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Now. Appleton City is 54° and mostly cloudy at 1 AM. The dew point is 46°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north-northwest at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 56° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. 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 6:37 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:39 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 12 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Appleton City, Missouri.
Air quality
Index 21, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, El Dorado Springs (MO), 34 miles off.
Yesterday measured 12, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.46 in in the last 24 hours, 1.75 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Appleton City, MissouriReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Appleton City, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Schell-OsageS2193
At a soil climate station/13.8 mi away/814 ft/59 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Schell-Osage ScanSCOM7
At a river or reservoir gauge/14.0 mi away/793 ft/80 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station KE0SWK-13KE0SWK-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/18.0 mi away/791 ft/82 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
ClintonGLY
At an airfield/21.9 mi away/822 ft/51 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Appleton CityAPCM7
At a cooperative observer's station/0.7 mi away/856 ft/17 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Appleton City 1.9 NWMO-BS-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.0 mi away/915 ft/42 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 21.9 mi from Appleton City, Missouri. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
A few clouds at 3,100 ft, a few clouds at 4,400 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
53.6 F with a dew point of 46.4 F, 77 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,700 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 3,100 ft.
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 8 mph, gusting 15 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 23 mph.
The full report of Clinton, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Appleton City (APCM7), 0.7 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. 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.