Citizen station EW9579EW9579
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.0 mi away/740 ft/65 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Rock Cut State Park, Illinois
State Park in Winnebago 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.
54°
55°/44°
Overcast·
Feels like 54°·Gentle breeze 9 mph WNW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Rock Cut State Park until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Rock Cut State Park is 54° and overcast at 12 AM. The dew point is 50°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 45° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. 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 57°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:13 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:02 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 4 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
9Air quality
85%Humidity
96%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
54feels54
now, overcast
Today
Oct 16
5544
17%
20mph
Sat
Oct 17
5731
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6337
14mph
Mon
Oct 19
6640
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6941
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7145
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7249
12%
54°
55°44°
57°31°
63°37°
66°40°
69°41°
71°45°
72°49°
As of 12:00 AM in Rock Cut State Park, Illinois.
Air quality
The air at Rock Cut State Park
Index 9, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Rockford (IL), 2 miles off.
9Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)9Good-
- Ozone7Good12 ppb1.5 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 27, good.
GoodModerate
- 27YesterdayOct 14
- 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 Rock Cut State Park
0.31 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.31in
- Last 3 days
- 0.31in
Visibility
How far you can see at Rock Cut State Park, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 4.69 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 805 ft
- County
- Winnebago County
- State
- Illinois
- Latitude
- 42.3405° N
- Longitude
- 89.0079° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Rock Cut 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
RockfordRFD
At an airfield/11.1 mi away/722 ft/83 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Kishwaukee Valley RdIMC02
Beside a road/17.7 mi away/817 ft/12 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
44N7E-17.8h1 (WOOD-08-01)421747088270701
At a river or reservoir gauge/28.6 mi away/943 ft/138 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Shabbona 5 NNE54811
At a climate reference station/35.5 mi away/861 ft/56 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Machesney Park 1.3 SSWIL-WN-42
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.0 mi away/733 ft/72 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Belvidere 1WBELI2
At a cooperative observer's station/9.4 mi away/751 ft/54 ft below 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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Near Rock Cut State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
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- Rockfordcity, 6 mi
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