Citizen station FW3734FW3734
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.0 mi away/644 ft/16 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Now. Frontenac is 54° and overcast at 4 AM. The dew point is 48°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 9 mph, gusting to 25 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 57° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 39° 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 79°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:22 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:22 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in Frontenac, Missouri.
Air quality
Index 15, good, led by fine particles. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Saint Louis (MO), 16 miles off.
Yesterday measured 40, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.47 in in the last 24 hours, 0.97 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 9 miles Fri 2 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Frontenac, MissouriReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Frontenac, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.9 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station FW3734FW3734
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.0 mi away/644 ft/16 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
St. LouisSTL
At an airfield/8.5 mi away/561 ft/67 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
St Louis - Missouri Botanical GardensMBGM7
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.6 mi away/509 ft/119 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Shaw Nature ReserveS2227
At a soil climate station/23.7 mi away/623 ft/5 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Olivette 1.5 SWMO-SL-87
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.9 mi away/602 ft/26 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Kirkwood 1NNWKWDM7
At a cooperative observer's station/2.5 mi away/661 ft/33 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 8.5 mi from Frontenac, Missouri. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:00 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
A few clouds at 2,000 ft, broken at 2,700 ft, broken at 10,000 ft, overcast at 13,000 ft; the ceiling is 2,700 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
55.0 F with a dew point of 48.0 F, 77 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,600 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,000 ft.
From the west northwest (300 degrees) at 13 mph, gusting 25 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 35 mph.
The full report of St. Louis, 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.