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temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Stephen A. Forbes State Recreation Area, Illinois
State Recreation Area in Marion County, Illinois68°
59°/48°
Overcast·
Feels like 68°·Gentle breeze 13 mph WNW
Now. Stephen A. Forbes State Recreation Area is 68° and overcast at 12 AM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 13 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 50° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 39° by 7 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 79°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:15 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
20Air quality
86%Humidity
98%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
68feels68
13mph
Today
Oct 16
5948
20%
20mph
Sat
Oct 17
6038
12mph
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
6634
UV 6
Mon
Oct 19
7138
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7442
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7645
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7947
overcast
68°
59°48°
60°38°
66°34°
71°38°
74°42°
76°45°
79°47°
As of 12:00 AM in Stephen A. Forbes State Recreation Area, Illinois.
Air quality
The air at Stephen A. Forbes State Recreation Area
Index 20, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, St. Louis (Metro-east) (IL), 66 miles off.
20Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)14Good-
- Ozone20Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)6Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 39, good.
GoodModerate
- 39YesterdayOct 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 Stephen A. Forbes State Recreation Area
0.47 in in the last 24 hours, 0.84 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.47in
- Last 3 days
- 0.84in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 56%
Visibility
How far you can see at Stephen A. Forbes State Recreation Area, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 12 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Recreation Area
- Area
- 4.86 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 564 ft
- County
- Marion County
- State
- Illinois
- Latitude
- 38.7446° N
- Longitude
- 88.7682° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Stephen A. Forbes State Recreation Area, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 8.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/12.7 mi away/574 ft/10 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
FloraFOAI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/16.6 mi away/490 ft/74 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW0190FW0190
In a volunteer observer's own ground/21.8 mi away/561 ft/3 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
St. Peter 0.2 WNWIL-FY-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.8 mi away/602 ft/38 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
SalemSLOI2
At a cooperative observer's station/12.3 mi away/548 ft/16 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
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