At an airfield/5.9 mi away/1,050 ft/18 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Platte Woods, Missouri
City in Platte County, Missouri* WHAT...Temperatures as low as 32 will result in frost formation. * WHERE...Portions of east central and northeast Kansas and central, north central, northeast, northwest, and west central Missouri. * WHEN...From 1 AM to 9 AM CDT Saturday. * IMPACTS...Frost could harm sensitive outdoor vegetation. Sensitive outdoor plants may be killed if left uncovered.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
48°
54°/44°
Clear·
Feels like 42°·Gentle breeze 12 mph NW
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for Platte Woods until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Platte Woods is 48° and clear at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 42°. The dew point is 37°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 12 mph, gusting to 24 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 54° by 2 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 59°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 34°.
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.
0UV Low
21Air quality
66%Humidity
8%Cloud
Now
3:00 AM
48feels42
12mph
Today
Oct 16
5444
22mph
Sat
Oct 17
5934
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6638
12mph
Mon
Oct 19
7044
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7348
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7753
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7958
overcast
48°
54°44°
59°34°
66°38°
70°44°
73°48°
77°53°
79°58°
As of 3:00 AM in Platte Woods, Missouri.
Air quality
The air at Platte Woods
Index 21, good, led by fine particles. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Kansas City (MO), 9 miles off.
21Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)21Good7.8 mi
- Ozone20Good22 ppb7.8 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)19Good7.8 mi
- Nitrogen dioxide0Good0.8 ppb7.8 mi
- Sulfur dioxide0Good0.4 ppb7.8 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 28, good.
GoodModerate
- 28YesterdayOct 15
- 17TodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Platte Woods
0.07 in in the last 24 hours, 1.95 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.07in
- Last 3 days
- 1.95in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 4%
Visibility
How far you can see at Platte Woods, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Platte Woods, MissouriReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Platte Woods, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.7 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Rank228of 1,014
Citizen station FW2285FW2285
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.3 mi away/905 ft/127 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Rain Gage at Rock Creek in Independence390632094282001
At a river or reservoir gauge/12.6 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/0.7 mi away/1,007 ft/25 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Smithville LakeSLKM7
At a cooperative observer's station/12.1 mi away/902 ft/130 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Kansas City/INTL, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 5.9 mi from Platte Woods, Missouri. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
47.0 F with a dew point of 36.0 F, 65 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,500 ft up.
The wind
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 12 mph, gusting 21 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 29 mph.
The full report of Kansas City/INTL, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Smithville Lake (SLKM7), 12.1 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Missouri
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Platte Woods
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
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