In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.6 mi away/938 ft/114 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Now. Shoal Creek Estates is 50° and mostly clear at 5 AM. With the wind it feels like 46°. The dew point is 37°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 11 mph, gusting to 25 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 56° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 37° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 82°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 61°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:40 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:45 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 5:00 AM in Shoal Creek Estates, Missouri.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Alba (MO), 16 miles off.
Yesterday measured 24, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.49 in in the last 24 hours, 2.20 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 10 miles Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Shoal Creek Estates, MissouriReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Shoal Creek Estates, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.6 mi away/938 ft/114 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
JoplinJLN
At an airfield/9.3 mi away/962 ft/90 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Rain Gage at Spring River nr Waco371444094335901
At a river or reservoir gauge/16.3 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Joplin 24 N23908
At a climate reference station/28.2 mi away/952 ft/100 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Mt VernonS2060
At a soil climate station/34.1 mi away/1,254 ft/202 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Shoal Creek Estates 0.2 SEMO-NW-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.1 mi away/988 ft/64 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Diamond 2WDMDM7
At a cooperative observer's station/8.0 mi away/1,070 ft/18 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 9.3 mi from Shoal Creek Estates, Missouri. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
48.0 F with a dew point of 36.0 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 (330 degrees) at 16 mph, gusting 25 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 31 mph.
The full report of Joplin, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Diamond 2W (DMDM7), 8.0 miles from here, read 14 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.