Mark Twain HSS2225
At a soil climate station/20.1 mi away/719 ft/165 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for Bowling Green until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Bowling Green is 48° and mostly cloudy at 4 AM. With the wind it feels like 42°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 15 mph, gusting to 27 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 55° by 3 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 58°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:25 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:23 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 11 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in Bowling Green, Missouri.
Air quality
Index 16, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Mark Twain State Park (MO), 33 miles off.
Yesterday measured 20, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.64 in in the last 24 hours, 1.30 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 8 miles Fri 6 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Bowling Green, MissouriReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Bowling Green, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Mark Twain HSS2225
At a soil climate station/20.1 mi away/719 ft/165 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Mississippi River AT Saverton LD22SVRM7
At a river or reservoir gauge/20.3 mi away/538 ft/346 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
HannibalHAE
At an airfield/29.4 mi away/772 ft/112 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Bowling Green 0.5 NNWMO-PK-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/889 ft/5 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Bowling GreenBWLM7
At a cooperative observer's station/1.9 mi away/741 ft/143 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 29.4 mi from Bowling Green, Missouri. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
50.0 F with a dew point of 41.0 F, 71 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,100 ft up.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 15 mph, gusting 21 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 26 mph.
The full report of Hannibal, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Mississippi River AT Saverton LD22 (SVRM7), 20.3 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 06:00. 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.