I-80 @ Hennepin Canal M.P. 44SS0536
Beside a road/0.1 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Now. Hennepin Canal Parkway State Park is 43° and clear at 2 AM. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 70° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 42° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 73°, and the coolest Monday, near 68°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:10 PM. The Moon is a waxing gibbous, 71% lit, and sets at 2:20 AM after midnight. 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 bright Moon hides all but the brightest of them. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 10 hours 55 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Hennepin Canal Parkway State Park, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 46, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Rock Island-Moline (IL), 38 miles off.
Highest moderate, Wed Oct 21, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 27, good.
No smoke near the ground through Wed 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Tue 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Wed 7 PM, lowest 10 miles Tue 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Hennepin Canal Parkway State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
I-80 @ Hennepin Canal M.P. 44SS0536
Beside a road/0.1 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/24.6 mi away/646 ft/6 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW4895DW4895
In a volunteer observer's own ground/30.0 mi away/698 ft/58 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Rock River At Dixon05442300
At a river or reservoir gauge/33.5 mi away/629 ft/11 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Princeton 1.0 SSWIL-BU-15
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.9 mi away/704 ft/64 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
WalnutWLNI2
At a cooperative observer's station/12.7 mi away/687 ft/47 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.