Now. University of Illinois Willard Airport is 64° and rain at 12 AM. The dew point is 61°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Moderate breeze from the west-northwest at 19 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 48° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 37° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 78°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:12 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:08 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 9 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in University of Illinois Willard Airport, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 27, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Champaign (IL), 13 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 43, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.28 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, 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 12 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04 / 22 | 6,502 ft | 150 ft | Concrete | 41° / 221° | 8 mph head, on 22 | 20 mph from the right |
| 14L / 32R | 8,101 ft | 150 ft | Concrete | 136° / 316° | 19 mph head, on 32R | 9 mph from the left |
| 14R / 32L | 3,816 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 60° / 240° | 13 mph head, on 32L | 16 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Champaign - Willard (CMI), University of Illinois Willard Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
69 F at 10 PM Thursday; 72 F at its warmest, 7 PM Thursday, and 63 F at its coolest, 1 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 67 F, the air 94% saturated; the humidity ran from 73% at 10 AM Thursday to 97% at 5 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
12 mph from the west at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 15 mph, 8 PM Thursday, with a gust of 28 mph at 8 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
29.87 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, steady over 3 hours; 0.22 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 2 miles at 2 PM Thursday; 3 miles now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 400 ft at 2 PM Thursday; a base was reported in 22 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.23 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.14 in, in the hour to 2 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Champaign - Willard: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 6 instruments nearest University of Illinois Willard Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/0.5 mi away/745 ft/10 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Bondville CRNBNDI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.1 mi away/682 ft/73 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Champaign 9 SW54808
At a climate reference station/5.0 mi away/700 ft/55 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
I-57 @ IL-16 MattoonSS0305
Beside a road/38.5 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Savoy 2.6 WSWIL-CP-50
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.0 mi away/738 ft/17 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
BondvilleBNDI2
At a cooperative observer's station/3.1 mi away/682 ft/73 ft below 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.