Temperature
73 F at 10 PM; 83 F at its warmest, 4 PM, and 69 F at its coolest, 4 AM.
- Now
- 73F
- 10 PM
- Highest
- 83F
- 4 PM
- Lowest
- 69F
- 4 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Sparta Community Airport - Hunter Field, Illinois
Small airport in Randolph County, Illinois72°
83°/66°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 72°·Light breeze 8 mph W
Coming up. Tomorrow is 25 degrees cooler: a high of 58° after 83° today.
Now. Sparta Community Airport - Hunter Field is 72° and mostly cloudy at 11 PM. The dew point is 68°, so the air feels oppressive. Light breeze from the west at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 49° by 8 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 58°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 34°.
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 15 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
19Air quality
82%Humidity
74%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
72feels72
now, partly cloudy
Today
Oct 15
8366
89%
12mph
Fri
Oct 16
5847
15%
20mph
Sat
Oct 17
5939
12mph
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
6534
UV 6
Mon
Oct 19
7038
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7441
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7644
overcast
72°
83°66°
58°47°
59°39°
65°34°
70°38°
74°41°
76°44°
As of 11:00 PM in Sparta Community Airport - Hunter Field, Illinois.
Air quality
The air at Sparta Community Airport - Hunter Field
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Farrar (MO), 31 miles off.
19Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)-5.1 mi
- Ozone19Good17 ppb5.1 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 28, good.
GoodModerate
- 28YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Sparta Community Airport - Hunter Field
0.27 in in the last 24 hours, 2.00 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.27in
- Last 3 days
- 2.00in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 14%
Visibility
How far you can see at Sparta Community Airport - Hunter Field, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 3 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- SAR
- ICAO
- KSAR
- IATA
- SAR
- Field elevation
- 538 ft
- Serves
- Sparta
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- SAR
- Wind now
- From 270° at 7 mph, read 15 Oct, 22:55
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09 / 27 unlit | 2,958 ft | 110 ft | Grass | 90° / 270° | 7 mph head, on 27 | None |
| 18 / 36 | 4,002 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 180° / 0° | 0 mph head, on 18 | 7 mph from the right |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Sparta (SAR), Sparta Community Airport - Hunter Field's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 69 F, the air 85% saturated; the humidity ran from 66% at 4 PM to 100% at 12 AM.
- Dew point now
- 69F
- 10 PM
- Humidity now
- 85%
- Humidity, range
- 66 to 100%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
7 mph from the west at 10 PM; at its strongest 12 mph, 2 PM, with a gust of 21 mph at 3 PM.
- Now
- 7mph
- from the west
- Strongest
- 12mph
- 2 PM
- Highest gust
- 21mph
- 3 PM
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
29.97 inHg at 10 PM, steady over 3 hours; 0.10 inHg lower than a day before.
- Now
- 29.97inHg
- 10 PM
- 3 hours
- +0.02inHg
- steady
- 24 hours
- -0.10inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 4 miles at 7 AM; 10 miles or more now.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 4mi
- 7 AM
- Hours under a mile
- 0
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
Cloud base
The lowest cloud base came down to 300 ft at 6 AM; a base was reported in 23 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- -
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 300ft
- 6 AM
- Hours with a base reported
- 23
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
Precipitation
0.08 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.04 in, in the hour to 1 PM.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.08in
- Wettest hour
- 0.04in
- 1 PM
- Hours with some
- 3
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Sparta: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Sparta Community Airport - Hunter Field, 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
SpartaSAR
At an airfield/0.1 mi away/538 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
64 @ IL-160SS1911
Beside a road/25.4 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Big Muddy Subimpoundment AT Big Muddy SubimpoundmentBSII2
At a river or reservoir gauge/37.7 mi away/404 ft/134 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Sparta 2.4 NWIL-RH-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.3 mi away/479 ft/59 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
SteelevilleSTEI2
At a cooperative observer's station/9.5 mi away/410 ft/128 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Illinois
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Sparta Community Airport - Hunter Field
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Spartacity, 2 mi
- Tildenvillage, 4 mi
- Coultervillevillage, 6 mi
- Marissavillage, 7 mi
- Baldwinvillage, 8 mi
- Steelevillevillage, 10 mi
- Percyvillage, 10 mi
- Cutlervillage, 11 mi
- Lenzburgvillage, 12 mi
- Darmstadtcommunity, 12 mi
- Willisvillevillage, 13 mi
- Oakdalevillage, 13 mi
Airports near Sparta Community Airport - Hunter Field
- Scott AFB/Midamerica AirportBLV, 28 mi
- Southern Illinois AirportMDH, 35 mi
- St Louis Downtown AirportCPS, 38 mi
- Centralia Municipal AirportENL, 42 mi
- Veterans Airport of Southern IllinoisMWA, 46 mi
- Mount Vernon Outland AirportMVN, 47 mi
- Salem-Leckrone AirportSLO, 52 mi
- St Louis Regional AirportALN, 55 mi