At an airfield/3.3 mi away/745 ft/74 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for Avondale until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Avondale is 48° and clear at 4 AM. With the wind it feels like 43°. The dew point is 37°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 54° by 2 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 81°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:38 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:37 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 10 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in Avondale, Missouri.
Air quality
Index 21, good, led by fine particles. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Kansas City (MO), 2 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 28, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.30 in in the last 24 hours, 1.80 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 9 miles Sat 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Avondale, MissouriReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Avondale, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/3.3 mi away/745 ft/74 ft below here
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Rain Gage at Rock Creek in Independence390632094282001
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.0 mi away/-/- ft from here
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Citizen station GW1065GW1065
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.2 mi away/844 ft/25 ft above here
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Powell GardensS2061
At a soil climate station/33.9 mi away/967 ft/148 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
North Kansas City 0.7 WNWMO-CY-40
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.7 mi away/745 ft/74 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Smithville LakeSLKM7
At a cooperative observer's station/16.4 mi away/902 ft/83 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 3.3 mi from Avondale, Missouri. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:54 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
49.0 F with a dew point of 37.0 F, 63 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,700 ft up.
From the west northwest (300 degrees) at 13 mph, gusting 21 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 32 mph.
The full report of Kansas City/Dntn, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Smithville Lake (SLKM7), 16.4 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.