Dover, Missouri Weather
Dover, Missouri — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Dover, Lafayette County.
Full aviation weather for Dover is published on the Higginsville Industrial Municipal Airport (KHIG) page, 13 km away. It carries the current METAR decoded into plain language — surface wind, visibility, cloud layers and ceiling, temperature and dewpoint, and altimeter setting — alongside the raw observation as transmitted. 6 airfields within reach of Dover have their own pages, listed below.
The Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF) is shown across its full validity period, with each change group broken out so you can see when conditions are expected to shift. Flight category is derived automatically — VFR, MVFR, IFR or LIFR — from reported ceiling and visibility, with runway details and field elevation alongside. Observations update roughly hourly and forecasts several times a day.
Other airports near Dover: Carrollton Memorial Airport (K26) 20 km · Marshall Memorial Municipal Airport (KMHL) 43 km · Skyhaven Airport (KRCM) 47 km · East Kansas City Airport (K3GV) 50 km · Whiteman Air Force Base (KSZL) 53 km
Conditions reported at KHIG describe the airfield itself. Weather 13 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Dover specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Dover.
About Dover, Missouri
Dover unfolds with a gentle grace across the Missouri landscape, its character etched by the rolling terrain that slopes towards the Lafayette County Missouri River bottoms. It lies 34.1 miles east-north-east of Blue Springs, MO (from Blue Springs, MO: bearing 69°T), and is situated 8.5 miles north of Higginsville. The air here often carries the scent of fertile earth, a promise of the season's yield, and the late afternoon sun, when it breaks through the humid haze, casts long, painterly shadows across fields of corn and soybeans. Old oaks, their branches gnarled like ancient hands, guard the edges of pastures where cattle graze with a quiet stoicism. This is a place where the sky feels vast, stretching in an unbroken expanse above the cultivated land, and the quiet hum of cicadas in the summer heat is the dominant sound. The history of Dover is inextricably linked to the fertile lands it surveys and the waterway that once served as its artery. Early settlers were drawn to the rich alluvial soil, establishing farms that continue to form the backbone of the local economy. While the advent of highways shifted the primary transportation routes, the echoes of a river-borne past linger, a subtle reminder of the commerce and connections that shaped this corner of Lafayette County. Today, agriculture remains the lifeblood, with families who have worked this land for generations continuing their legacy. Dover itself retains a sense of enduring continuity, a place where the rhythms of the seasons and the quiet pursuit of rural life define its distinctive, unhurried essence.
Live animated radar for Dover and surroundings — RainViewer.
NOAA GOES-16 GEOCOLOR — live animated loop updated every 10 minutes. Shows cloud cover, storm systems and weather patterns across the continental US.
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| Location | Dover, Lafayette County, Missouri |
| Coordinates | 39.193349°N, 93.687717°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 63448, 64022 |
| Area Code | 314, 816 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Dover, Missouri Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Dover, Missouri, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. Aviation weather — live METAR observations and TAF forecasts — is published separately on the pages for the nearest reporting airports, linked from the aviation section above. Additional sections may include tide predictions, wave height, wave direction and sea-surface temperature, a barometric pressure trend, and a solunar-based fishing forecast with a fishing-conditions rating for coastal localities, and soil temperature, crop weather and live USGS river gauge data for agricultural areas near a monitored waterway. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Dover includes coordinates 39.193349°N, 93.687717°W, situated in Lafayette County. ZIP code 63448, 64022. Telephone area code: 314, 816. Timezone: Central Time (America/Chicago).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. River and stream data is sourced from the USGS National Water Information System. Tide predictions are sourced from NOAA CO-OPS; marine and solunar data are modeled from Open-Meteo and public sunrise/moon calculations and should be treated as a general guide alongside on-the-water conditions. Radar is provided by RainViewer. Satellite imagery is sourced from NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East and is public domain.
