Rain Gage at Chariton River at Novinger401403092411101
At a river or reservoir gauge/13.7 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for Queen City until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Queen City is 51° and mostly cloudy at 5 PM. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 17 mph, gusting to 28 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 46° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° 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 77°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:29 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:24 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 5:00 PM in Queen City, Missouri.
Air quality
Index 15, good, led by ozone. Read at 4 PM from its reporting area, Lake Sugema (IA), 35 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 28, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.12 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 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Queen City, MissouriReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 4 instruments nearest Queen City, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.1 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
Rain Gage at Chariton River at Novinger401403092411101
At a river or reservoir gauge/13.7 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
KirksvilleIRK
At an airfield/21.6 mi away/961 ft/42 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Lancaster 2SELACM7
At a cooperative observer's station/7.1 mi away/945 ft/58 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Lancaster 0.2 SEMO-FSA-197
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.0 mi away/942 ft/61 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 21.6 mi from Queen City, Missouri. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud reported; visibility 10 mi or more.
51.0 F with a dew point of 39.0 F, 63 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,700 ft up.
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 15 mph, gusting 25 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 36 mph.
The full report of Kirksville, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.