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At a river or reservoir gauge/2.0 mi away/467 ft/183 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Matthiessen State Park, Illinois
State Park in LaSalle County, Illinois54°
56°/45°
Overcast·
Feels like 54°·Moderate breeze 16 mph WNW
Now. Matthiessen State Park is 54° and overcast at 1 AM. The dew point is 45°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the west-northwest at 16 mph, gusting to 26 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 47° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:14 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:06 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 6 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
12Air quality
77%Humidity
97%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
54feels54
16mph
Today
Oct 16
5645
37%
18mph
Sat
Oct 17
5733
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6537
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
6941
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7243
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7446
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7550
10%
54°
56°45°
57°33°
65°37°
69°41°
72°43°
74°46°
75°50°
As of 1:00 AM in Matthiessen State Park, Illinois.
Air quality
The air at Matthiessen State Park
Index 12, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Peoria (IL), 44 miles off.
12Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)12Good-
- Ozone6Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 52, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 52YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
- GoodMonOct 19
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Matthiessen State Park
0.58 in in the last 24 hours, 0.67 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.58in
- Last 3 days
- 0.67in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 87%
Visibility
How far you can see at Matthiessen State Park, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 10 miles Fri 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 2.64 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 650 ft
- County
- LaSalle County
- State
- Illinois
- Latitude
- 41.3090° N
- Longitude
- 89.0151° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Matthiessen State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.0 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
I-39/Lincoln Bridge (593000)SS0776
Beside a road/3.5 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
PeruVYS
At an airfield/7.8 mi away/653 ft/3 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW9987DW9987
In a volunteer observer's own ground/37.5 mi away/653 ft/3 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Shabbona 5 NNE54811
At a climate reference station/37.7 mi away/861 ft/211 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Ottawa 4SWOTTI2
At a cooperative observer's station/5.6 mi away/545 ft/105 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Peru 0.3 NEIL-LS-16
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.2 mi away/643 ft/7 ft below 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 Matthiessen State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Starved Rockfeature, 1 mi
- North Uticavillage, 2 mi
- Oglesbycity, 3 mi
- LaSallecity, 5 mi
- Perucity, 6 mi
- Cedar Pointvillage, 7 mi
- Tonicavillage, 7 mi
- Naplatevillage, 7 mi
- Leonorevillage, 8 mi
- Dalzellvillage, 9 mi
- Ottawacity, 9 mi
- Standardvillage, 9 mi