Citizen station EW9579EW9579
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.5 mi away/740 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Golf courses/Illinois/Atwood Homestead
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Atwood Homestead until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Atwood Homestead is 50° and overcast at 2 AM. The dew point is 46°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 10 mph, gusting to 33 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 53° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:13 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:02 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 4 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Atwood Homestead, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 8, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Rockford (IL), 4 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 18, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.44 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 7 instruments nearest Atwood Homestead, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.5 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Citizen station EW9579EW9579
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.5 mi away/740 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
RockfordRFD
At an airfield/13.9 mi away/722 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
- 173 at Piscasaw Crk BridgeSS0313
Beside a road/19.7 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
44N7E-17.8h1 (WOOD-08-01)421747088270701
At a river or reservoir gauge/31.5 mi away/943 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Shabbona 5 NNE54811
At a climate reference station/39.5 mi away/861 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Machesney Park 0.9 WIL-WN-45
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.0 mi away/711 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Belvidere 1WBELI2
At a cooperative observer's station/13.5 mi away/751 ft/- ft from 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.