Citizen station GW1065GW1065
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.2 mi away/844 ft/117 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for River Bend until 9 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. River Bend is 37° and mostly clear at 6 AM. The dew point is 35°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 65° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 41° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Friday, near 82°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 69°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:36 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 43% lit, and sets at 11:36 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 6:00 AM in River Bend, Missouri.
Air quality
Index 21, good, led by fine particles. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Kansas City (MO), 10 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 20, good.
No smoke near the ground through Mon 1 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.28 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 5 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Mon 1 AM, lowest 9 miles Sun 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over River Bend, MissouriReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest River Bend, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station GW1065GW1065
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.2 mi away/844 ft/117 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Rain Gage at Rock Creek in Independence390632094282001
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.6 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
MosbyGPH
At an airfield/11.4 mi away/764 ft/37 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Powell GardensS2061
At a soil climate station/28.7 mi away/967 ft/240 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Glenaire 0.6 WMO-CY-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.8 mi away/820 ft/93 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Kearney 3EKRNM7
At a cooperative observer's station/13.3 mi away/846 ft/119 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 11.4 mi from River Bend, Missouri. From its report of Oct 17, 2026, 6:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
33.8 F with a dew point of 32.0 F, 93 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 400 ft up.
Calm.
The full report of Mosby, 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.