PiedmontPMRM7
At a river or reservoir gauge/17.1 mi away/840 ft/98 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Now. Cherokee Pass is 47° and mostly cloudy at 7 AM. With the wind it feels like 42°. The dew point is 45°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 13 mph, gusting to 23 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 59° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 37° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. 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 61°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:23 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:26 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 day is 11 hours 14 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 7:00 AM in Cherokee Pass, Missouri.
Air quality
Index 18, good, led by ozone. Read at 7 AM from its reporting area, Bonne Terre (MO), 29 miles off.
Yesterday measured 23, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.04 in in the last 24 hours, 0.20 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 6 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Cherokee Pass, MissouriReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Cherokee Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.5 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
PiedmontPMRM7
At a river or reservoir gauge/17.1 mi away/840 ft/98 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
FarmingtonFAM
At an airfield/20.3 mi away/945 ft/7 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW0772GW0772
In a volunteer observer's own ground/34.9 mi away/425 ft/513 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
FredericktownFRDM7
At a cooperative observer's station/5.5 mi away/768 ft/170 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Farmington 7.5 SSEMO-SF-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.9 mi away/992 ft/54 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 20.3 mi from Cherokee Pass, Missouri. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 5:56 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 1,800 ft, overcast at 9,000 ft; the ceiling is 1,800 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
53.6 F with a dew point of 48.2 F, 82 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 1,800 ft.
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 8 mph, gusting 18 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 18 mph.
The full report of Farmington, in 6 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.