At an airfield/11.9 mi away/427 ft/64 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Giant City State Park, Illinois
State Park in Jackson County, Illinois72°
87°/66°
Partly cloudy·
Feels like 72°·Light breeze 6 mph W
Coming up. Tomorrow is 27 degrees cooler: a high of 60° after 87° today.
Now. Giant City State Park is 72° and partly cloudy at 11 PM. The dew point is 68°, so the air feels oppressive. Light breeze from the west at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 50° by 8 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 76°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. Rain is possible tomorrow (36%). Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 34°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south. 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 16 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
20Air quality
80%Humidity
51%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
72feels72
now, partly cloudy
Today
Oct 15
8766
59%
12mph
Fri
Oct 16
6049
36%
17mph
Sat
Oct 17
6040
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
6634
UV 6
Mon
Oct 19
7039
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7442
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7644
overcast
72°
87°66°
60°49°
60°40°
66°34°
70°39°
74°42°
76°44°
As of 11:00 PM in Giant City State Park, Illinois.
Air quality
The air at Giant City State Park
Index 20, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Farrar (MO), 27 miles off.
20Good
- Ozone20Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 28, good.
GoodModerate
- 28YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Giant City State Park
0.10 in in the last 24 hours, 0.53 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.10in
- Last 3 days
- 0.53in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 19%
Visibility
How far you can see at Giant City State Park, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 4 miles Fri 4 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 6.79 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 491 ft
- County
- Jackson County
- State
- Illinois
- Latitude
- 37.6102° N
- Longitude
- 89.2097° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Giant City State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.1 mi away/426 ft/65 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Crab Orchard Fire WeatherCOWI2
On a farm or research station/12.3 mi away/433 ft/58 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
146 @ McClureSS0235
Beside a road/27.1 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Carbondale 6.2 SIL-JK-38
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.8 mi away/637 ft/146 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Sewage PlantMDHI2
At a cooperative observer's station/8.5 mi away/384 ft/107 ft below 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 Sewage Plant (MDHI2), 8.5 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 Giant City State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Makandavillage, 2 mi
- Cobdenvillage, 6 mi
- Alto Passvillage, 7 mi
- Carbondalecity, 8 mi
- Annacity, 10 mi
- Jonesborocity, 11 mi
- Cartervillecity, 13 mi
- Cambriavillage, 13 mi
- Crainvillevillage, 13 mi
- Murphysborocity, 13 mi
- Gorevillevillage, 13 mi
- De Sotovillage, 14 mi