At an airfield/6.7 mi away/1,050 ft/181 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for Parkville until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Parkville is 51° and overcast at 1 PM. The dew point is 39°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 18 mph, gusting to 28 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 53° by 5 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 80°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:39 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:38 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 11 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 PM in Parkville, Missouri.
Air quality
Index 21, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 1 PM from its reporting area, Kansas City (MO), 9 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 28, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 AM.
Precipitation
0.02 in in the last 24 hours, 1.95 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 7 AM, lowest 9 miles Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Parkville, MissouriReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Parkville, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/6.7 mi away/1,050 ft/181 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW2285FW2285
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.7 mi away/905 ft/36 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Rain Gage at Rock Creek in Independence390632094282001
At a river or reservoir gauge/13.1 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Platte Woods 0.7 SMO-PT-21
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.1 mi away/1,007 ft/138 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Smithville LakeSLKM7
At a cooperative observer's station/14.6 mi away/902 ft/33 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 6.7 mi from Parkville, Missouri. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 3,200 ft; the ceiling is 3,200 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
51.0 F with a dew point of 40.0 F, 66 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,500 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 3,200 ft.
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 17 mph, gusting 28 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 37 mph.
The full report of Kansas City/INTL, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Smithville Lake (SLKM7), 14.6 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. 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.