Rain Gage At Salt Creek Near Farmer City401340088393801
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.1 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Clinton Lake State Recreation Area, Illinois
State Recreation Area in De Witt County, Illinois55°
56°/45°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 55°·Moderate breeze 16 mph NNW
Now. Clinton Lake State Recreation Area is 55° and mostly cloudy at 5 PM. The dew point is 46°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 16 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 49° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 78°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:14 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:10 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 8 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
18Air quality
76%Humidity
77%Cloud
Now
5:00 PM
55feels55
11%
16mph
Today
Oct 16
5645
39%
20mph
Sat
Oct 17
5835
13mph
Sun
Oct 18
6635
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
7237
clear day
Tue
Oct 20
7441
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7643
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7846
overcast
55°
56°45°
58°35°
66°35°
72°37°
74°41°
76°43°
78°46°
As of 5:00 PM in Clinton Lake State Recreation Area, Illinois.
Air quality
The air at Clinton Lake State Recreation Area
Index 18, good, led by fine particles. Read at 4 PM from its reporting area, Decatur (IL), 23 miles off.
18Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)18Good21.5 mi
- Ozone16Good12 ppb21.5 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 36, good.
GoodModerate
- 36YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
- GoodMonOct 19
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Clinton Lake State Recreation Area
0.15 in in the last 24 hours, 0.32 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 4 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.15in
- Last 3 days
- 0.32in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 47%
Visibility
How far you can see at Clinton Lake State Recreation Area, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 1 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Recreation Area
- Area
- 0.82 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 705 ft
- County
- De Witt County
- State
- Illinois
- Latitude
- 40.1606° N
- Longitude
- 88.7870° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Clinton Lake State Recreation Area, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.5 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
In a volunteer observer's own ground/14.1 mi away/768 ft/63 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
US-51 @ HeyworthSS1921
Beside a road/14.9 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/22.9 mi away/876 ft/171 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Champaign 9 SW54808
At a climate reference station/23.3 mi away/700 ft/5 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Farmer City 3.2 SWIL-DW-11
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.5 mi away/717 ft/12 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
ClintonCLTI2
At a cooperative observer's station/9.7 mi away/728 ft/23 ft above 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 Clinton (CLTI2), 9.7 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
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The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.