Citizen station EW4118EW4118
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.7 mi away/863 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Olson Beach, Illinois
Beach in Winnebago County, Illinois* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 possible. * WHERE...Boone, Ogle, and Winnebago Counties. * WHEN...From late Friday night through Saturday morning. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
60°
63°/51°
Overcast·
Feels like 60°·Gentle breeze 10 mph WNW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Olson Beach until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 8 degrees cooler: a high of 55° after 63° today.
Now. Olson Beach is 60° and overcast at 9 PM. The dew point is 56°, so the air feels a little humid. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 10 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 44° by 7 AM, under cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 31°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 11 hours 7 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
26Air quality
93%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
9:00 PM
60feels60
12%
Today
Oct 15
6351
98%
15mph
Fri
Oct 16
5544
17%
20mph
Sat
Oct 17
5731
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6337
14mph
Mon
Oct 19
6640
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6941
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7145
overcast
60°
63°51°
55°44°
57°31°
63°37°
66°40°
69°41°
71°45°
As of 9:00 PM in Olson Beach, Illinois.
Air quality
The air at Olson Beach
Index 26, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Rockford (IL), 4 miles off.
26Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)26Good-
- Ozone6Good4 ppb4.1 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 27, good.
GoodModerate
- 27YesterdayOct 14
- GoodTodayOct 15
- GoodFriOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
- GoodMonOct 19
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Olson Beach
0.28 in in the last 24 hours, 0.29 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.28in
- Last 3 days
- 0.29in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 97%
Visibility
How far you can see at Olson Beach, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 8 miles Thu 9 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Beach
- County
- Winnebago County
- State
- Illinois
- Latitude
- 42.3533° N
- Longitude
- 88.9589° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Olson Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.7 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
RockfordRFD
At an airfield/13.0 mi away/722 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
- 173 at Piscasaw Crk BridgeSS0313
Beside a road/15.3 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
44N7E-17.8h1 (WOOD-08-01)421747088270701
At a river or reservoir gauge/26.2 mi away/943 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Shabbona 5 NNE54811
At a climate reference station/35.9 mi away/861 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Rockford 4.6 ENEIL-WN-58
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.7 mi away/903 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Belvidere 1WBELI2
At a cooperative observer's station/8.3 mi away/751 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Illinois
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Olson Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Argylecommunity, 1 mi
- Loves Parkcity, 3 mi
- Caledoniavillage, 3 mi
- Machesney Parkvillage, 4 mi
- Candlewick Lakecommunity, 5 mi
- Timberlanevillage, 5 mi
- Roscoevillage, 5 mi
- Poplar Grovevillage, 7 mi
- Cherry Valleyvillage, 7 mi
- Rocktonvillage, 8 mi
- Rockfordcity, 9 mi
- Belviderecity, 9 mi
Beaches near Olson Beach
- Levings Lake Park and Standfield Beach11 mi
- Standfield Beach11 mi
- Wonder Center Beach31 mi
- West Beach31 mi
- Main Beach32 mi
- West Beach Park34 mi
- East Beach Park34 mi
- Petersen Park Beach35 mi