MoberlyMBY
At an airfield/8.9 mi away/866 ft/3 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for Jacksonville until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Jacksonville is 54° and overcast at 5 PM. The dew point is 40°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 17 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 48° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 35° 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 79°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:29 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:27 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 9 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 5:00 PM in Jacksonville, Missouri.
Air quality
Index 13, good, led by ozone. Read at 4 PM from its reporting area, Columbia (MO), 36 miles off.
Yesterday measured 17, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 PM.
Precipitation
0.04 in in the last 24 hours, 1.25 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 4 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 1 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Jacksonville, MissouriReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Jacksonville, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
MoberlyMBY
At an airfield/8.9 mi away/866 ft/3 ft above here
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Citizen station EW1044EW1044
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.6 mi away/855 ft/8 ft below here
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AtlantaATAM7
At a river or reservoir gauge/19.6 mi away/856 ft/7 ft below here
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Cmrb LtarS2195
At a soil climate station/31.1 mi away/871 ft/8 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Cairo 5.0 ENEMO-RN-9
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.4 mi away/828 ft/35 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a reservoir/11.4 mi away/817 ft/46 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 8.9 mi from Jacksonville, Missouri. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 5:15 PM local time: 3 of its 5 sheets.
Scattered at 3,000 ft, scattered at 3,400 ft, overcast at 4,400 ft; the ceiling is 4,400 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
From the north northwest (330 degrees) at 17 mph, gusting 25 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 33 mph.
At 866 ft above sea level, 3 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 29.00 inHg and the temperature at 55.9 F; the station's altimeter setting of 30.42 inHg means its barometer reads 29.48 inHg.
The full report of Moberly, 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.