Dexter ScanDEXM7
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.9 mi away/305 ft/63 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for Dexter until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Dexter is 51° and partly cloudy at 1 AM. The dew point is 47°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north at 13 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 61° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 38° by 6 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 66°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:21 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 11:25 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 13 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Dexter, Missouri.
Air quality
Index 4, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Dyersburg (TN), 62 miles off.
Yesterday measured 31, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.07 in in the last 24 hours, 0.16 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 7 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Dexter, MissouriReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Dexter, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Dexter ScanDEXM7
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.9 mi away/305 ft/63 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
DexterS2048
At a soil climate station/2.2 mi away/296 ft/72 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
MaldenMAW
At an airfield/13.6 mi away/290 ft/78 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW0268DW0268
In a volunteer observer's own ground/26.1 mi away/265 ft/103 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Dexter 1EDXTM7
At a cooperative observer's station/1.3 mi away/308 ft/60 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Dexter 2.3 WMO-ST-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.2 mi away/401 ft/33 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 13.6 mi from Dexter, Missouri. From its report of Oct 17, 2026, 1:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 2,700 ft; the ceiling is 2,700 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
53.6 F with a dew point of 46.4 F, 77 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,700 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,700 ft.
From the north (350 degrees) at 14 mph, gusting 21 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 23 mph.
The full report of Malden, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Dexter 1E (DXTM7), 1.3 miles from here, read 13 Oct, 07:00. 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.