Rain Gage at Current River at VanBuren365929091004801
At a river or reservoir gauge/21.0 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Now. Piedmont is 63° and mostly cloudy at 1 AM. The dew point is 63°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 9 mph, gusting to 22 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 52° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 40° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 82°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 63°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:25 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:29 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 15 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Piedmont, Missouri.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Bonne Terre (MO), 53 miles off.
Yesterday measured 21, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.18 in in the last 24 hours, 0.30 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 7 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Piedmont, MissouriReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Piedmont, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.6 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Rain Gage at Current River at VanBuren365929091004801
At a river or reservoir gauge/21.0 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
LtspS2230
At a soil climate station/23.4 mi away/890 ft/380 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
At an airfield/33.4 mi away/325 ft/185 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Clearwater DamCLRM7
At a dam/5.6 mi away/623 ft/113 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Patterson 3.6 NMO-WY-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.2 mi away/559 ft/49 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 33.4 mi from Piedmont, Missouri. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 8,500 ft; the ceiling is 8,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
74.0 F with a dew point of 66.0 F, 76 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,900 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 8,500 ft.
From the southwest (220 degrees) at 5 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 22 mph.
The full report of Popular Bluff, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Clearwater Dam (CLRM7), 5.6 miles from here, read 15 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.