HarrisburgHSB
At an airfield/8.2 mi away/397 ft/11 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Sahara Woods State Recreation Area, Illinois
State Recreation Area in Saline County, Illinois* WHAT...Temperatures as low as 34 will result in frost formation. * WHERE...All of southern Illinois, southwest Indiana, western Kentucky, and southeast Missouri. * WHEN...From 1 AM CDT /2 AM EDT/ to 8 AM CDT /9 AM EDT/ Sunday. * IMPACTS...Frost could harm sensitive outdoor vegetation. Sensitive outdoor plants may be killed if left uncovered.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
61°
61°/41°
Clear·
Feels like 61°·Light breeze 8 mph NNE
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for Sahara Woods State Recreation Area until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Sahara Woods State Recreation Area is 61° and clear at 3 PM. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north-northeast at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 47° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 37° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 77°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 68°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:15 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 11:17 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.
3UV Moderate
27Air quality
42%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
3:00 PM
61feels61
now, clear
Today
Oct 17
6141
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6834
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
7237
clear day
Tue
Oct 20
7440
clear day
Wed
Oct 21
7641
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7744
overcast
Fri
Oct 23
7747
overcast
61°
61°41°
68°34°
72°37°
74°40°
76°41°
77°44°
77°47°
As of 3:00 PM in Sahara Woods State Recreation Area, Illinois.
Air quality
The air at Sahara Woods State Recreation Area
Index 27, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 PM from its reporting area, Paducah (KY), 47 miles off.
27Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)3Good24.9 mi
- Ozone27Good33 ppb24.9 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 19, good.
GoodModerate
- 19YesterdayOct 16
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Mon 7 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Sahara Woods State Recreation Area
None in the last 24 hours; 0.12 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 2 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.12in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Sahara Woods State Recreation Area, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Mon 7 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Recreation Area
- Area
- 6.28 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 386 ft
- County
- Saline County
- State
- Illinois
- Latitude
- 37.7259° N
- Longitude
- 88.6551° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Sahara Woods State Recreation Area, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.4 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Crab Orchard Fire WeatherCOWI2
On a farm or research station/19.3 mi away/433 ft/47 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW7109FW7109
In a volunteer observer's own ground/22.2 mi away/460 ft/74 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
HarrisburgHSBI2
At a cooperative observer's station/7.4 mi away/364 ft/22 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Harrisburg 3.5 NNEIL-SL-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.3 mi away/395 ft/9 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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 Sahara Woods State Recreation Area
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Carrier Millsvillage, 3 mi
- Harrisburgcity, 6 mi
- Muddyvillage, 8 mi
- Stonefortvillage, 8 mi
- Crab Orchardcommunity, 8 mi
- Galatiavillage, 8 mi
- Raleighvillage, 10 mi
- Pittsburgvillage, 11 mi
- New Burnsidevillage, 12 mi
- Creal Springscity, 12 mi
- Eldoradocity, 13 mi
- Thompsonvillevillage, 14 mi