Now. Mount Carmel Municipal Airport is 72° and light rain at 12 AM. The dew point is 70°, so the air feels oppressive. Gentle breeze from the west at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 50° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 41° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 78°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:11 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:11 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Mount Carmel Municipal Airport, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 21, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Vincennes (IN), 22 miles off.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.72 in in the last 24 hours, 1.75 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 3 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04 / 22 | 4,000 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 40° / 220° | 8 mph head, on 22 | 1 mph from the left |
| 13 / 31 | 4,500 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 131° / 311° | 2 mph head, on 13 | 8 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Mount Carmel (AJG), Mount Carmel Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
75 F at 10 PM Thursday; 82 F at its warmest, 4 PM Thursday, and 69 F at its coolest, 1 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 75 F, the air 98% saturated; the humidity ran from 84% at 4 PM Thursday to 98% at 10 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
8 mph from the southwest at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 10 mph, 5 PM Thursday, and no gust reported.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
29.92 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, steady over 3 hours; 0.16 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 0.8 miles at 1 AM Thursday, under a mile for 2 hours; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 200 ft at 1 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 22 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Mount Carmel: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 3 instruments nearest Mount Carmel Municipal Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.0 miles away.
measured now1 instrument
Mount CarmelAJG
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/430 ft/1 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Lawrenceville 1.4 WIL-LW-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.2 mi away/453 ft/24 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
LawrencevilleLWVI2
At a cooperative observer's station/8.5 mi away/463 ft/34 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.