Mississippi River AT Canton LD20CANM7
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.3 mi away/528 ft/74 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for La Grange until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. La Grange is 53° and overcast at 5 PM. The dew point is 47°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 14 mph, gusting to 29 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 54° by 5 PM. Tonight falls to about 37° 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 Thursday, near 77°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:25 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 9 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 5:00 PM in La Grange, Missouri.
Air quality
Index 16, good, led by ozone. Read at 4 PM from its reporting area, Mark Twain State Park (MO), 42 miles off.
Yesterday measured 19, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.37 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 La Grange, MissouriReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest La Grange, 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
Mississippi River AT Canton LD20CANM7
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.3 mi away/528 ft/74 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
HannibalHAE
At an airfield/22.3 mi away/772 ft/170 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW0701GW0701
In a volunteer observer's own ground/24.1 mi away/661 ft/59 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Mark Twain HSS2225
At a soil climate station/37.0 mi away/719 ft/117 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Canton 0.7 WNWMO-LS-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.4 mi away/603 ft/1 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Canton L And D 20CANM7
At a cooperative observer's station/6.6 mi away/489 ft/113 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 22.3 mi from La Grange, Missouri. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 1,500 ft, broken at 2,000 ft, overcast at 4,300 ft; the ceiling is 1,500 ft; visibility 7 mi.
50.0 F with a dew point of 46.4 F, 87 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 800 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,500 ft.
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 16 mph, gusting 28 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 30 mph.
The full report of Hannibal, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Canton L And D 20 (CANM7), 6.6 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.