Pecatonica River At Martintown05434500
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.3 mi away/757 ft/200 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Now. Lake Le-Aqua-Na State Park is 42° and clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 37°. The dew point is 33°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the south-southwest at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 62° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 40° 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 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 66°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:13 PM. The Moon is a first quarter, 52% lit, and sets at 12:09 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 58 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Lake Le-Aqua-Na State Park, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 22, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Rockford (IL), 42 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 20, good.
No smoke near the ground through Mon 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.43 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Mon 7 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Lake Le-Aqua-Na State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Pecatonica River At Martintown05434500
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.3 mi away/757 ft/200 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.8 mi away/803 ft/154 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
US-20 FreeportSS1843
Beside a road/13.1 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
FreeportFEP
At an airfield/18.3 mi away/860 ft/97 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Lena 1.8 NWIL-SP-11
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.6 mi away/924 ft/33 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Stockton 3NNESTOI2
At a cooperative observer's station/7.6 mi away/955 ft/2 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Stockton 3NNE (STOI2), 7.6 miles from here, read 17 Oct, 07:00. 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.