Temperature
54 F at 10 PM; 68 F at its warmest, 4 PM, and 54 F at its coolest, 10 PM.
- Now
- 54F
- 10 PM
- Highest
- 68F
- 4 PM
- Lowest
- 54F
- 10 PM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Coming up. Tomorrow is 16 degrees cooler: a high of 56° after 72° today.
Now. Macomb Municipal Airport is 55° and overcast at 10 PM. The dew point is 52°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the west-northwest at 17 mph, gusting to 29 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 44° by 7 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 76°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph. Frost is possible Saturday morning, a low of 33°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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 day is 11 hours 11 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Macomb Municipal Airport, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 12, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Rock Island-Moline (IL), 58 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 32, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.03 in in the last 24 hours, 0.09 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 7 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09 / 27 | 5,100 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 90° / 270° | 13 mph head, on 27 | 11 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Macomb Muni (MQB), Macomb Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
54 F at 10 PM; 68 F at its warmest, 4 PM, and 54 F at its coolest, 10 PM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 53 F, the air 95% saturated; the humidity ran from 87% at 2 AM to 100% at 10 AM.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
17 mph from the northwest at 10 PM; at its strongest 23 mph, 9 PM, with a gust of 38 mph at 7 PM.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.01 inHg at 10 PM, rising 0.09 inHg over 3 hours; 0.11 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 1 mile at 1 PM; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 400 ft at 2 PM; a base was reported in 24 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.01 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.01 in, in the hour to 1 PM.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Macomb Muni: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Macomb Municipal Airport, 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 now3 instruments
Macomb MuniMQB
At an airfield/0.1 mi away/705 ft/2 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
61 South Of ColmarSS0777
Beside a road/18.1 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Mississippi River AT Gladstone LD18GLDI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/32.1 mi away/538 ft/169 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
MacombMQBI2
At a cooperative observer's station/3.8 mi away/696 ft/11 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Macomb 3.8 NWIL-MCD-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.8 mi away/711 ft/4 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Macomb (MQBI2), 3.8 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.