In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.9 mi away/863 ft/2 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 20 degrees cooler: a high of 55° after 75° today.
Now. Holden is 55° and mostly cloudy at 10 PM. The dew point is 48°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 44° 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 Wednesday, near 80°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Saturday morning, a low of 35°.
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 sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 14 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Holden, Missouri.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Kansas City (MO), 42 miles off.
Good each day through Fri Oct 16, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 41, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.24 in in the last 24 hours, 1.30 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. 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 Holden, MissouriReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Holden, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.9 mi away/863 ft/2 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Powell Gardens ScanPWGM7
At a river or reservoir gauge/10.9 mi away/960 ft/95 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Powell GardensS2061
At a soil climate station/11.1 mi away/967 ft/102 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
WarrensburgRCM
At an airfield/11.3 mi away/797 ft/68 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Centerview 3WCNVM7
At a cooperative observer's station/5.4 mi away/863 ft/2 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Holden 6.2 SMO-JH-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.2 mi away/863 ft/2 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 11.3 mi from Holden, Missouri. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 2,200 ft, broken at 3,000 ft, broken at 10,000 ft; the ceiling is 3,000 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 1,300 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,200 ft.
From the north northwest (330 degrees) at 14 mph, gusting 20 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 28 mph.
The full report of Warrensburg, 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.