Mississippi River AT Gladstone LD18GLDI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.8 mi away/538 ft/2 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for Delabar State Park until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Delabar State Park is 53° and overcast at 1 AM. The dew point is 47°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 12 mph, gusting to 24 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 55° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° 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 77°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:22 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:15 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 7 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Delabar State Park, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 18, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Muscatine (IA), 33 miles off.
Yesterday measured 29, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.26 in in the last 24 hours, 0.78 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 7 miles Fri 2 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Delabar State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Mississippi River AT Gladstone LD18GLDI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.8 mi away/538 ft/2 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station CW6338CW6338
In a volunteer observer's own ground/15.0 mi away/671 ft/131 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
US-34 @ MonmouthSS0325
Beside a road/15.2 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
GalesburgGBG
At an airfield/26.8 mi away/804 ft/264 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Gladstone L/D 18GLDI2
At a cooperative observer's station/6.8 mi away/532 ft/8 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Stronghurst 0.4 SSWIL-HD-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/14.9 mi away/696 ft/156 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Mississippi River AT Gladstone LD18 (GLDI2), 6.8 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 06:00. measured daily
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.