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In a volunteer observer's own ground/22.1 mi away/816 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Golf courses/Illinois/The General
The General, Illinois
Golf course in Jo Daviess County, Illinois* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 31 expected. * WHERE...Portions of northwest Illinois and east central, northeast, and southeast Iowa. * WHEN...Until 9 AM CDT this 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.
33°
58°/31°
Clear·
Feels like 33°·Calm 0 mph NNW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for The General until 9 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. The General is 33° and clear at 6 AM. The dew point is 31°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 58° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 41° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 65°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:16 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 11:07 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 1 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
18Air quality
97%Humidity
6%Cloud
Now
6:00 AM
33feels33
now, clear
Today
Oct 17
5831
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6539
15mph
Mon
Oct 19
6640
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6842
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7146
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7350
overcast
Fri
Oct 23
7350
overcast
33°
58°31°
65°39°
66°40°
68°42°
71°46°
73°50°
73°50°
As of 6:00 AM in The General, Illinois.
Air quality
The air at The General
Index 18, good, led by ozone. Read at 6 AM from its reporting area, Clinton (IA), 38 miles off.
18Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)8Good-
- Ozone18Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 20, good.
GoodModerate
- 20YesterdayOct 16
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Mon 1 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at The General
0.09 in in the last 24 hours, 0.75 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 5 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.09in
- Last 3 days
- 0.75in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 12%
Visibility
How far you can see at The General, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Mon 1 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Golf course
- Area
- 0.34 sq mi
- County
- Jo Daviess County
- State
- Illinois
- Latitude
- 42.3752° N
- Longitude
- 90.3271° W
Course map
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest The General, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.9 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
SavannaSFY
At an airfield/25.4 mi away/617 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Pecatonica River At Martintown05434500
At a river or reservoir gauge/28.4 mi away/757 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
US-20 FreeportSS1843
Beside a road/35.7 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
ElizabethEZBI2
At a cooperative observer's station/4.9 mi away/715 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Galena 0.8 WSWIL-JD-16
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.5 mi away/772 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Elizabeth (EZBI2), 4.9 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 06:30. measured daily
Elsewhere in Illinois
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near The General
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- The Galena Territorycommunity, 1 mi
- Galenatown, 6 mi
- Elizabethvillage, 7 mi
- Scales Moundvillage, 8 mi
- Hanovervillage, 9 mi
- Apple Canyon Lakecommunity, 9 mi
- Menomineevillage, 13 mi
- Apple Rivervillage, 15 mi
- Stocktonvillage, 16 mi
- East Dubuquecity, 18 mi
- Warrenvillage, 19 mi
- Noravillage, 20 mi