Rock River At Dixon05442300
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.6 mi away/629 ft/89 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 10 degrees cooler: a high of 56° after 66° today.
Now. Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home National Historic Site is 58° and overcast at 10 PM. The dew point is 55°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the west-northwest at 14 mph, gusting to 26 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 44° by 6 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 8 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home National Historic Site, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 9, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Clinton (IA), 36 miles off.
Yesterday measured 30, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.48 in in the last 24 hours, 0.62 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Thu 10 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 7 instruments nearest Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home National Historic Site, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Rock River At Dixon05442300
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.6 mi away/629 ft/89 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station DW5640DW5640
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.6 mi away/799 ft/81 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/12.0 mi away/646 ft/72 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Shabbona 5 NNE54811
At a climate reference station/32.4 mi away/861 ft/143 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
I-80 @ Hennepin Canal M.P. 44SS0536
Beside a road/33.1 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Dixon 0.9 SSWIL-LE-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.4 mi away/673 ft/45 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Dixon WWTPDXNI2
At a water treatment plant/1.7 mi away/650 ft/68 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.