Cape Girardeau, MO Weather Forecast
Cape Girardeau County, Missouri
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Cape Girardeau, with free alerts the moment it counts.
The next few hours
Taller, warmer bars mean heavier rain. Dotted means no reading for that hour.
Hour by hour
Sunrise and sunset
Next five days, scored 0 to 100The first day or two use the HRRR and NBM cloud layers. Later days only have total cloud, so treat them as a rough guide.
Know when sunset at this place will be worth a photo
We score every sunrise and sunset here from the cloud, haze and smoke forecast, and let you know when one is likely to light up. Sunrise the evening before, sunset a few hours ahead.
Seven-day outlook
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Cape Girardeau, MO at a glance
Cape Girardeau is home to about 40,508 people in Cape Girardeau County, across 29 square miles. It ranks 17th by population of 211 places in Missouri with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Scott City, 6 miles away.
- County
- Cape Girardeau County
- Population
- 40,508 2023 est.
- Land area
- 29 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 1,384
- Forecast point
- 37.3094°N, 89.5584°W
How well can the network see Cape Girardeau?
The nearest Doppler radar is KPAH (Paducah, KY), to the ESE. Its lowest scan passes about 3,200 ft above Cape Girardeau. Close enough to see rotation in the low part of a storm, where tornadoes form.
The closest weather station is KCGI (Cape Girardeau Rgnl). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Cape Girardeau
- Scott City, MO6 mi
- Jackson, MO7 mi
- Chaffee, MO11 mi
- Anna, IL20 mi
- Sikeston, MO29 mi
- Charleston, MO30 mi
- Perryville, MO34 mi
- Carbondale, IL34 mi
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