AtlantaATAM7
At a river or reservoir gauge/26.4 mi away/856 ft/139 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Bethel, Missouri
Village in Shelby County, Missouri* WHAT...Temperatures as low as 35 will result in frost formation. * WHERE...Portions of south central, southwest, and west central Illinois and central, east central, and northeast Missouri. * WHEN...From 1 AM to 9 AM CDT Saturday. * IMPACTS...Frost could harm sensitive outdoor vegetation. Sensitive outdoor plants may be killed if left uncovered.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
47°
55°/44°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 42°·Gentle breeze 12 mph NW
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for Bethel until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Bethel is 47° and mostly clear at 4 AM. With the wind it feels like 42°. The dew point is 39°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 12 mph, gusting to 22 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 54° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 35° 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 78°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:27 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:24 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 9 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
16Air quality
74%Humidity
25%Cloud
Now
4:00 AM
47feels42
12mph
Today
Oct 16
5544
18mph
Sat
Oct 17
5935
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6637
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
7041
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7345
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7748
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7853
overcast
47°
55°44°
59°35°
66°37°
70°41°
73°45°
77°48°
78°53°
As of 4:00 AM in Bethel, Missouri.
Air quality
The air at Bethel
Index 16, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Mark Twain State Park (MO), 31 miles off.
16Good
- Coarse particles (PM10)16Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 20, good.
GoodModerate
- 20YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Bethel
0.09 in in the last 24 hours, 0.98 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.09in
- Last 3 days
- 0.98in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 9%
Visibility
How far you can see at Bethel, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 8 miles Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Bethel, MissouriReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Bethel, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Rank270of 1,014
KirksvilleIRK
At an airfield/31.5 mi away/961 ft/244 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station EW1044EW1044
In a volunteer observer's own ground/35.1 mi away/855 ft/138 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Mark Twain HSS2225
At a soil climate station/37.3 mi away/719 ft/2 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Shelbyville 5.5 NNWMO-SB-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.8 mi away/784 ft/67 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
SteffenvilleSFFM7
At a cooperative observer's station/9.7 mi away/715 ft/2 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Kirksville, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 31.5 mi from Bethel, Missouri. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud reported; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
45.0 F with a dew point of 39.0 F, 79 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,400 ft up.
The wind
From the west northwest (290 degrees) at 12 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 33 mph.
The full report of Kirksville, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Steffenville (SFFM7), 9.7 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Missouri
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Bethel
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.