Citizen station GW1984GW1984
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.1 mi away/836 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Golf courses/Illinois/Macktown Golf Course
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Macktown Golf Course 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 54° after 62° today.
Now. Macktown Golf Course is 55° and overcast at 11 PM. The dew point is 51°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the west-northwest at 15 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 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 30°.
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 6 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Macktown Golf Course, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 13, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Rockford (IL), 9 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 27, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.44 in in the last 24 hours, 0.48 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. 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 6 instruments nearest Macktown Golf Course, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station GW1984GW1984
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.1 mi away/836 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
RockfordRFD
At an airfield/17.6 mi away/722 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
- 173 at Piscasaw Crk BridgeSS0313
Beside a road/21.4 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Rain Gage At Hebron422834088255800
At a river or reservoir gauge/33.5 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Rockton 3.1 SWIL-WN-50
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.5 mi away/874 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Belvidere 1WBELI2
At a cooperative observer's station/17.5 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.