Rain Gage at Rock Creek in Independence390632094282001
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.6 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for Randolph until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Randolph is 52° and overcast at 1 PM. The dew point is 38°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 16 mph, gusting to 33 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 36° 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 81°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:38 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:37 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 PM in Randolph, Missouri.
Air quality
Index 21, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 1 PM from its reporting area, Kansas City (MO), 4 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 28, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 AM.
Precipitation
0.17 in in the last 24 hours, 2.00 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 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Randolph, MissouriReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Randolph, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Rain Gage at Rock Creek in Independence390632094282001
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.6 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/5.7 mi away/745 ft/26 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW1065GW1065
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.2 mi away/844 ft/73 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Powell GardensS2061
At a soil climate station/32.0 mi away/967 ft/196 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Randolph 1.8 NWMO-CY-34
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.5 mi away/876 ft/105 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Smithville LakeSLKM7
At a cooperative observer's station/16.4 mi away/902 ft/131 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 5.7 mi from Randolph, Missouri. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:54 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 4,000 ft; the ceiling is 4,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
52.0 F with a dew point of 38.0 F, 59 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 3,200 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 4,000 ft.
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 22 mph, gusting 33 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 38 mph.
The full report of Kansas City/Dntn, 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), 16.4 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.