Starved Rock Met Station Near North Utica411926088585501
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.4 mi away/467 ft/14 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 14 degrees cooler: a high of 57° after 71° today.
Now. Starved Rock State Park is 65° and overcast at 9 PM. The dew point is 65°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Gentle breeze from the west at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 46° by 7 AM, with some cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. Rain is possible tomorrow (36%). Frost is possible Saturday morning, a low of 34°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 9:00 PM in Starved Rock State Park, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 29, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Aurora and Elgin (IL), 45 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 28, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
0.86 in in the last 24 hours, 0.93 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 6 miles Fri 1 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 7 instruments nearest Starved Rock State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.4 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Starved Rock Met Station Near North Utica411926088585501
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.4 mi away/467 ft/14 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
- 39 MP 81 Lee CountySS1841
Beside a road/3.9 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
PeruVYS
At an airfield/7.7 mi away/653 ft/200 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Shabbona 5 NNE54811
At a climate reference station/36.4 mi away/861 ft/408 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Citizen station DW9987DW9987
In a volunteer observer's own ground/36.5 mi away/653 ft/200 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Ottawa 4SWOTTI2
At a cooperative observer's station/5.2 mi away/545 ft/92 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Peru 0.3 NEIL-LS-16
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.1 mi away/643 ft/190 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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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.