FarmingtonFAM
At an airfield/15.7 mi away/945 ft/12 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for Ironton until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Ironton is 41° and clear at 6 AM. With the wind it feels like 38°. The dew point is 38°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 63° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. 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 70°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:23 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 12 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 6:00 AM in Ironton, Missouri.
Air quality
Index 11, good, led by ozone. Read at 6 AM from its reporting area, Bonne Terre (MO), 24 miles off.
Yesterday measured 19, good.
No smoke near the ground through Mon 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.02 in in the last 24 hours, 1.10 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 5 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Mon 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Ironton, MissouriReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Ironton, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.0 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
FarmingtonFAM
At an airfield/15.7 mi away/945 ft/12 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Farmington RAWSFMRM7
A remote fire weather station/15.8 mi away/915 ft/18 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Sinkin ForestS2231
At a soil climate station/35.1 mi away/1,350 ft/417 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Pilot Knob 0.1 NNEMO-IR-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.0 mi away/982 ft/49 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
FredericktownFRDM7
At a cooperative observer's station/18.2 mi away/768 ft/165 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 15.8 mi from Ironton, Missouri. From its report of Oct 17, 2026, 6:00 AM local time: 3 of its 5 sheets.
44.0 F with a dew point of 41.2 F, 90 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 600 ft up.
From the north northwest (330 degrees) at 5 mph, gusting 9 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 19 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 44.0 F, 11.7 F colder 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.