Citizen station FW0313FW0313
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/814 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Golf courses/Illinois/The Ledges
The Ledges, Illinois
Golf course in Winnebago County, Illinois* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures are expected. * WHERE...Boone, Ogle, and Winnebago Counties. * WHEN...From 5 AM to 8 AM CDT Saturday. * 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.
48°
54°/44°
Overcast·
Feels like 44°·Gentle breeze 9 mph WNW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for The Ledges until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. The Ledges is 48° and overcast at 4 AM. With the wind it feels like 44°. The dew point is 46°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 9 mph, gusting to 20 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 53° by 12 PM. Tonight falls to about 30° 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 56°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:12 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:01 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 3 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
15Air quality
85%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
4:00 AM
48feels44
now, overcast
Today
Oct 16
5444
13%
19mph
Sat
Oct 17
5630
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6237
14mph
Mon
Oct 19
6638
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6941
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7144
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7249
11%
48°
54°44°
56°30°
62°37°
66°38°
69°41°
71°44°
72°49°
As of 4:00 AM in The Ledges, Illinois.
Air quality
The air at The Ledges
Index 15, good, led by ozone. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Rockford (IL), 8 miles off.
15Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)6Good-
- Ozone15Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 18, good.
GoodModerate
- 18YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
- GoodMonOct 19
Smoke, the next 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at The Ledges
0.35 in in the last 24 hours, 0.37 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.35in
- Last 3 days
- 0.37in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 95%
Visibility
How far you can see at The Ledges, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 9 miles Sat 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Golf course
- Area
- 0.28 sq mi
- County
- Winnebago County
- State
- Illinois
- Latitude
- 42.4409° N
- Longitude
- 88.9735° W
Course map
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest The Ledges, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
- 173 at Piscasaw Crk BridgeSS0313
Beside a road/15.5 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
RockfordRFD
At an airfield/18.2 mi away/722 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Rain Gage At Hebron422834088255800
At a river or reservoir gauge/27.7 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
South Beloit 1.5 ESEIL-WN-41
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.0 mi away/780 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Belvidere 1WBELI2
At a cooperative observer's station/14.0 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 The Ledges
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Roscoevillage, 3 mi
- Rocktonvillage, 4 mi
- South Beloitcity, 4 mi
- Argylecommunity, 6 mi
- Caledoniavillage, 6 mi
- Machesney Parkvillage, 7 mi
- Loves Parkcity, 8 mi
- Candlewick Lakecommunity, 8 mi
- Timberlanevillage, 9 mi
- Poplar Grovevillage, 9 mi
- Capronvillage, 12 mi
- Rockfordcity, 13 mi