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At an airfield/7.1 mi away/321 ft/21 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Fort Defiance State Park, Illinois
State Park in Alexander County, Illinois74°
89°/68°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 74°·Light air 3 mph WSW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 26 degrees cooler: a high of 63° after 89° today.
Now. Fort Defiance State Park is 74° and mostly clear at 9 PM. The dew point is 68°, so the air feels oppressive. Light air from the west-southwest at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 54° by 7 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 77°, and the coolest Saturday, near 62°. Rain is possible tomorrow (42%).
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 day is 11 hours 17 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
45Air quality
84%Humidity
29%Cloud
Now
9:00 PM
74feels74
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 15
8968
17%
UV 6
Fri
Oct 16
6352
42%
15mph
Sat
Oct 17
6243
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
6737
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
7141
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7543
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7745
overcast
74°
89°68°
63°52°
62°43°
67°37°
71°41°
75°43°
77°45°
As of 9:00 PM in Fort Defiance State Park, Illinois.
Air quality
The air at Fort Defiance State Park
Index 45, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Paducah (KY), 32 miles off.
45Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)45Good-
- Ozone44Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 34, good.
GoodModerate
- 34YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Fort Defiance State Park
None in the last 24 hours; 0.04 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.04in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Fort Defiance State Park, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 6 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 0.2 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 300 ft
- County
- Alexander County
- State
- Illinois
- Latitude
- 36.9832° N
- Longitude
- 89.1417° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Fort Defiance State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Ohio River At Olmsted03612600
At a river or reservoir gauge/14.3 mi away/278 ft/22 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
146 @ McClureSS0235
Beside a road/29.4 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station EW6292EW6292
In a volunteer observer's own ground/30.6 mi away/340 ft/40 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Cairo 0.8 NIL-AL-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.7 mi away/313 ft/13 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Grand Chain Dam 53GCTI2
At a dam/16.0 mi away/384 ft/84 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 Grand Chain Dam 53 (GCTI2), 16.0 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 06:00. measured daily
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