Citizen station FW3055FW3055
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.1 mi away/842 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Golf courses/Illinois/Silver Ridge
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Silver Ridge until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 10 degrees cooler: a high of 55° after 65° today.
Now. Silver Ridge is 58° and overcast at 10 PM. The dew point is 55°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the west-northwest at 13 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 44° by 6 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 31°.
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 7 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Silver Ridge, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Rockford (IL), 25 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
0.51 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, 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 Thu 10 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 7 instruments nearest Silver Ridge, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.1 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Citizen station FW3055FW3055
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.1 mi away/842 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
RockfordRFD
At an airfield/16.3 mi away/722 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Rock River At Dixon05442300
At a river or reservoir gauge/16.4 mi away/629 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
US-20 FreeportSS1843
Beside a road/23.1 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Shabbona 5 NNE54811
At a climate reference station/30.0 mi away/861 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Mount Morris 1.4 ESEIL-OG-10
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.1 mi away/919 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Oregon WWTPOREI2
At a water treatment plant/4.0 mi away/676 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.