Spickard ScanSPCM7
At a river or reservoir gauge/13.5 mi away/911 ft/43 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Cainsville until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Cainsville is 47° and partly cloudy at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 42°. The dew point is 38°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 52° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° 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 Wednesday, near 76°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:34 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:29 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 8 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Cainsville, Missouri.
Air quality
Index 20, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, St. Joseph (MO), 66 miles off.
Yesterday measured 20, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Cainsville, MissouriReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Cainsville, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.6 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Spickard ScanSPCM7
At a river or reservoir gauge/13.5 mi away/911 ft/43 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
SpickardS2047
At a soil climate station/15.0 mi away/912 ft/44 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Citizen station GW2617GW2617
In a volunteer observer's own ground/16.1 mi away/1,057 ft/189 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Cainsville 5.7 SSEMO-MR-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.6 mi away/910 ft/42 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
PrincetonPRTM7
At a cooperative observer's station/10.3 mi away/932 ft/64 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 13.5 mi from Cainsville, Missouri. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:00 AM local time: 3 of its 3 sheets.
At 911 ft above sea level, 3 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 28.95 inHg and the temperature at 55.8 F; it reports 47.5 F, 8.3 F colder than standard.
On Oct 16 the noon sun stands 41 degrees above the horizon at 40.25 N, and the day is 10 h 58 min long. Level ground there takes 65 per cent of the noon sunlight a surface facing the sun would.
A data collection platform, 911 ft above sea level. Its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:00 AM local time is written on the sensors that made it.
The full report of Spickard Scan, in 3 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.