In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.4 mi away/938 ft/122 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 20 degrees cooler: a high of 56° after 76° today.
Now. Duquesne is 57° and overcast at 10 PM. The dew point is 56°, so the air feels a little humid. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 12 mph, gusting to 25 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 46° by 7 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 80°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 17 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Duquesne, Missouri.
Air quality
Index 11, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Alba (MO), 12 miles off.
Yesterday measured 14, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.65 in in the last 24 hours, 1.95 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Duquesne, MissouriReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Duquesne, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.4 mi away/938 ft/122 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
JoplinJLN
At an airfield/5.7 mi away/962 ft/98 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Rain Gage at Spring River nr Waco371444094335901
At a river or reservoir gauge/13.2 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Joplin 24 N23908
At a climate reference station/24.7 mi away/952 ft/108 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Mt VernonS2060
At a soil climate station/32.1 mi away/1,254 ft/194 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Joplin 2.0 ESEMO-JS-33
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.4 mi away/1,087 ft/27 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Diamond 2WDMDM7
At a cooperative observer's station/8.5 mi away/1,070 ft/10 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 5.7 mi from Duquesne, Missouri. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 9:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
A few clouds at 900 ft, broken at 2,400 ft, overcast at 3,800 ft; the ceiling is 2,400 ft; visibility 8 mi.
57.0 F with a dew point of 56.0 F, 96 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 200 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 900 ft.
From the north (350 degrees) at 17 mph, gusting 25 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 30 mph.
The full report of Joplin, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Diamond 2W (DMDM7), 8.5 miles from here, read 14 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.