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Golf courses/Illinois/The Rail Golf Course
The Rail Golf Course, Illinois
Golf course in Sangamon County, Illinois* WHAT...Clear skies and light winds will allow temperatures to drop to between 33 and 35 degrees tonight. This will result in frost formation. * WHERE...Portions of central and west central Illinois. * WHEN...From 1 AM to 9 AM CDT Saturday. * IMPACTS...Frost could harm sensitive outdoor vegetation. Sensitive outdoor plants may be killed if left uncovered.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
52°
57°/44°
Overcast·
Feels like 52°·Gentle breeze 12 mph NW
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for The Rail Golf Course until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. The Rail Golf Course is 52° and overcast at 3 AM. The dew point is 47°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 12 mph, gusting to 26 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 57° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 79°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:18 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:14 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 9 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
14Air quality
77%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
3:00 AM
52feels52
now, overcast
Today
Oct 16
5744
41%
17mph
Sat
Oct 17
5836
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6635
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
7238
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7541
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7744
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7948
overcast
52°
57°44°
58°36°
66°35°
72°38°
75°41°
77°44°
79°48°
As of 3:00 AM in The Rail Golf Course, Illinois.
Air quality
The air at The Rail Golf Course
Index 14, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Springfield (IL), 5 miles off.
14Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)6Good-
- Ozone14Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 29, good.
GoodModerate
- 29YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
- GoodMonOct 19
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at The Rail Golf Course
0.44 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.44in
- Last 3 days
- 0.44in
Visibility
How far you can see at The Rail Golf Course, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 4 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Golf course
- Area
- 0.26 sq mi
- County
- Sangamon County
- State
- Illinois
- Latitude
- 39.8776° N
- Longitude
- 89.6227° W
Course map
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest The Rail Golf Course, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station FW4825FW4825
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.3 mi away/551 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
I-55/IL-104 @ PawneeSS0232
Beside a road/19.9 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Mason #1 ScanMASI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/33.7 mi away/570 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Sherman 0.5 NEIL-SG-75
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.4 mi away/575 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
ShermanSHRI2
At a cooperative observer's station/1.5 mi away/577 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Sherman (SHRI2), 1.5 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Illinois
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near The Rail Golf Course
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Shermanvillage, 1 mi
- Grandviewvillage, 4 mi
- Spauldingvillage, 4 mi
- Rivertonvillage, 5 mi
- Cantrallvillage, 5 mi
- Springfieldcity, 6 mi
- Williamsvillevillage, 7 mi
- Leland Grovecity, 8 mi
- Athenscity, 8 mi
- Jeromevillage, 8 mi
- Southern Viewvillage, 9 mi
- Dawsonvillage, 9 mi