FarmingtonFAM
At an airfield/11.8 mi away/945 ft/139 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Now. Iron Mountain Lake is 56° and partly cloudy at 3 PM. The dew point is 38°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 15 mph, gusting to 27 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 37° by 8 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 80°, 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 6:24 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 PM in Iron Mountain Lake, Missouri.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 PM from its reporting area, Bonne Terre (MO), 18 miles off.
Yesterday measured 23, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 AM.
Precipitation
0.28 in in the last 24 hours, 1.20 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 7 AM, lowest 9 miles Sat 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Iron Mountain Lake, MissouriReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Iron Mountain Lake, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.2 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
FarmingtonFAM
At an airfield/11.8 mi away/945 ft/139 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Farmington RAWSFMRM7
A remote fire weather station/11.8 mi away/915 ft/169 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Sinkin ForestS2231
At a soil climate station/37.1 mi away/1,350 ft/266 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Bismarck 1.3 SMO-SF-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.2 mi away/1,013 ft/71 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
FredericktownFRDM7
At a cooperative observer's station/19.6 mi away/768 ft/316 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 11.8 mi from Iron Mountain Lake, Missouri. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:00 PM local time: 3 of its 5 sheets.
56.0 F with a dew point of 38.1 F, 51 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 4,100 ft up.
From the northwest (318 degrees) at 11 mph, gusting 24 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 29 mph.
At 915 ft above sea level, 3 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 28.95 inHg and the temperature at 55.7 F; it reports 56.0 F, 0.3 F warmer than standard.
The full report of Farmington RAWS, in 5 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.