Citizen station FW3055FW3055
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.0 mi away/842 ft/165 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Lowden State Park, Illinois
State Park in Ogle County, Illinois* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 degrees possible. * WHERE...Boone, Ogle, and Winnebago Counties. * WHEN...From late Friday night through Saturday morning. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
56°
65°/51°
Overcast·
Feels like 56°·Moderate breeze 14 mph WNW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Lowden State Park until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 9 degrees cooler: a high of 56° after 65° today.
Now. Lowden State Park is 56° and overcast at 11 PM. The dew point is 52°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the west-northwest at 14 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 44° 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 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 31°.
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-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 7 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
13Air quality
91%Humidity
99%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
56feels56
14mph
Today
Oct 15
6551
97%
14mph
Fri
Oct 16
5643
16%
19mph
Sat
Oct 17
5731
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6337
13mph
Mon
Oct 19
6740
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7041
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7345
overcast
56°
65°51°
56°43°
57°31°
63°37°
67°40°
70°41°
73°45°
As of 11:00 PM in Lowden State Park, Illinois.
Air quality
The air at Lowden State Park
Index 13, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Rockford (IL), 25 miles off.
13Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)13Good-
- Ozone7Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 27, good.
GoodModerate
- 27YesterdayOct 14
- GoodTodayOct 15
- GoodFriOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
- GoodMonOct 19
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Lowden State Park
0.44 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.44in
- Last 3 days
- 0.44in
Visibility
How far you can see at Lowden State Park, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 7 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 0.32 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 677 ft
- County
- Ogle County
- State
- Illinois
- Latitude
- 42.0373° N
- Longitude
- 89.3348° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Lowden 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 now5 instruments
Rock River At Dixon05442300
At a river or reservoir gauge/15.4 mi away/629 ft/48 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
RochelleRPJ
At an airfield/16.5 mi away/781 ft/104 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
US-20 FreeportSS1843
Beside a road/24.9 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Shabbona 5 NNE54811
At a climate reference station/28.4 mi away/861 ft/184 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Oregon WWTPOREI2
At a water treatment plant/2.2 mi away/676 ft/1 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Mount Morris 1.4 ESEIL-OG-10
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.7 mi away/919 ft/242 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Illinois
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Lowden State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Oregoncity, 2 mi
- Mount Morrisvillage, 5 mi
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- Byroncity, 7 mi
- Lost Nationcommunity, 9 mi
- Stillman Valleyvillage, 9 mi
- Grand Detourcommunity, 10 mi
- Adelinevillage, 11 mi
- Kingscommunity, 12 mi
- Holcombcommunity, 12 mi
- Davis Junctionvillage, 13 mi
- Polocity, 13 mi