At an airfield/7.8 mi away/427 ft/35 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Lake Murphysboro State Park, Illinois
State Park in Jackson County, Illinois53°
59°/49°
Overcast·
Feels like 53°·Gentle breeze 13 mph NW
Now. Lake Murphysboro State Park is 53° and overcast at 10 AM. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 13 mph, gusting to 23 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 57° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 41° 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 78°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:19 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:21 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 13 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
2UV Low
19Air quality
64%Humidity
93%Cloud
Now
10:00 AM
53feels53
13mph
Today
Oct 16
5949
16%
19mph
Sat
Oct 17
6040
14mph
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
6534
UV 6
Mon
Oct 19
7037
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7340
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7541
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7844
overcast
53°
59°49°
60°40°
65°34°
70°37°
73°40°
75°41°
78°44°
As of 10:00 AM in Lake Murphysboro State Park, Illinois.
Air quality
The air at Lake Murphysboro State Park
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 9 AM from its reporting area, Farrar (MO), 18 miles off.
19Good
- Ozone19Good17 ppb17.7 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 26, good.
GoodModerate
- 26YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 40 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Lake Murphysboro State Park
0.28 in in the last 24 hours, 0.30 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 9 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.28in
- Last 3 days
- 0.30in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 93%
Visibility
How far you can see at Lake Murphysboro State Park, the next 40 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 1 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 1.48 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 462 ft
- County
- Jackson County
- State
- Illinois
- Latitude
- 37.7826° N
- Longitude
- 89.3927° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Lake Murphysboro State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
In a volunteer observer's own ground/14.9 mi away/426 ft/36 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Crab Orchard Fire WeatherCOWI2
On a farm or research station/22.5 mi away/433 ft/29 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
146 @ McClureSS0235
Beside a road/34.2 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Murphysboro 1.3 NWIL-JK-20
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.2 mi away/419 ft/43 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
MurphysboroMURI2
At a cooperative observer's station/3.7 mi away/512 ft/50 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Illinois
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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