Citizen station EW4355EW4355
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.9 mi away/618 ft/10 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 21 degrees cooler: a high of 58° after 79° today.
Now. Bel-Ridge is 64° and light rain at 11 PM. The dew point is 61°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 13 mph, gusting to 43 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 49° by 8 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 77°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 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-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.
As of 11:00 PM in Bel-Ridge, Missouri.
Air quality
Index 23, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, St. Louis (Metro-east) (IL), 21 miles off.
Highest moderate, today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 39, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.55 in in the last 24 hours, 0.99 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 10 miles Fri 12 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Bel-Ridge, MissouriReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Bel-Ridge, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station EW4355EW4355
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.9 mi away/618 ft/10 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
St. LouisSTL
At an airfield/3.9 mi away/561 ft/67 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
St Louis - Missouri Botanical GardensMBGM7
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.6 mi away/509 ft/119 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Shaw Nature ReserveS2227
At a soil climate station/30.7 mi away/623 ft/5 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Normandy 0.6 SWMO-SL-120
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.0 mi away/632 ft/4 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Science CenterSSCM7
At a cooperative observer's station/8.6 mi away/486 ft/142 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 3.9 mi from Bel-Ridge, Missouri. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:51 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 900 ft, broken at 1,900 ft, overcast at 2,400 ft; the ceiling is 1,900 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
62.0 F with a dew point of 57.0 F, 84 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,200 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 900 ft.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 21 mph, gusting 43 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 43 mph.
The full report of St. Louis, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Science Center (SSCM7), 8.6 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 16:00. 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.