I-70 @ IL-140SS0493
Beside a road/18.6 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Ramsey Lake State Recreation Area, Illinois
State Recreation Area in Fayette County, Illinois62°
58°/46°
Overcast·
Feels like 62°·Moderate breeze 14 mph WNW
Now. Ramsey Lake State Recreation Area is 62° and overcast at 12 AM. The dew point is 51°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the west-northwest at 14 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 49° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 37° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 79°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:17 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:15 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 11 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
24Air quality
87%Humidity
98%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
62feels62
22%
14mph
Today
Oct 16
5846
26%
19mph
Sat
Oct 17
5937
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
6634
UV 6
Mon
Oct 19
7238
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7541
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7744
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7947
overcast
62°
58°46°
59°37°
66°34°
72°38°
75°41°
77°44°
79°47°
As of 12:00 AM in Ramsey Lake State Recreation Area, Illinois.
Air quality
The air at Ramsey Lake State Recreation Area
Index 24, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Decatur (IL), 48 miles off.
24Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)24Good-
- Ozone10Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 45, good.
GoodModerate
- 45YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
- GoodMonOct 19
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Ramsey Lake State Recreation Area
0.42 in in the last 24 hours, 0.58 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.42in
- Last 3 days
- 0.58in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 72%
Visibility
How far you can see at Ramsey Lake State Recreation Area, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 6 miles Fri 3 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Recreation Area
- Area
- 3.11 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 660 ft
- County
- Fayette County
- State
- Illinois
- Latitude
- 39.1814° N
- Longitude
- 89.1485° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Ramsey Lake State Recreation Area, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 8.6 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Citizen station GW6177GW6177
In a volunteer observer's own ground/25.4 mi away/648 ft/12 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
TaylorvilleTAZ
At an airfield/26.2 mi away/623 ft/37 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Witt 3.5 SEIL-MY-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.6 mi away/702 ft/42 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
PanaPNAI2
At a cooperative observer's station/14.8 mi away/640 ft/20 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Pana (PNAI2), 14.8 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
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