Citizen station GW0701GW0701
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.7 mi away/661 ft/40 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for Kahoka until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Kahoka is 52° and overcast at 1 AM. The dew point is 48°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the northwest at 7 mph, gusting to 20 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 54° by 3 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 76°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:26 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:21 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 8 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Kahoka, Missouri.
Air quality
Index 17, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Lake Sugema (IA), 24 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 28, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.61 in in the last 24 hours, 1.30 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 7 miles Fri 12 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Kahoka, MissouriReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 4 instruments nearest Kahoka, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
Citizen station GW0701GW0701
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.7 mi away/661 ft/40 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Mississippi River AT Canton LD20CANM7
At a river or reservoir gauge/21.8 mi away/528 ft/173 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Kahoka 0.4 SSWMO-CK-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/702 ft/1 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Luray 2 NLRYM7
At a cooperative observer's station/9.4 mi away/738 ft/37 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 5.7 mi from Kahoka, Missouri. From its report of undefined: 3 of its 4 sheets.
From the west northwest (286 degrees) at 3 mph, gusting 3 mph: force 1, a light air on the Beaufort scale.
At 661 ft above sea level, 2 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 29.21 inHg and the temperature at 56.6 F; the station's altimeter setting of 30.07 inHg means its barometer reads 29.36 inHg; it reports 53.0 F, 3.6 F colder than standard.
On Oct 16 the noon sun stands 41 degrees above the horizon at 40.38 N, and the day is 10 h 57 min long. Level ground there takes 65 per cent of the noon sunlight a surface facing the sun would.
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Mississippi River AT Canton LD20 (CANM7), 21.8 miles from here, read 13 Oct, 06:00. measured daily
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.