Illinois River At Morris05542500
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.7 mi away/478 ft/6 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 12 degrees cooler: a high of 58° after 70° today.
Now. William G. Stratton State Park is 66° and overcast at 10 PM. The dew point is 67°, so the air feels oppressive. Gentle breeze from the west at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 47° by 7 AM, under cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Saturday morning, a low of 35°.
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. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 11 hours 9 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in William G. Stratton State Park, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 23, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Joliet and Will County (IL), 14 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 50, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.76 in in the last 24 hours, 1.05 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 6 instruments nearest William G. Stratton State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Illinois River At Morris05542500
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.7 mi away/478 ft/6 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/4.8 mi away/584 ft/100 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station EW7868EW7868
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.4 mi away/615 ft/131 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
US-34 @ Fox River BridgeSS1924
Beside a road/22.9 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Morris 0.3 ENEIL-GY-35
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.1 mi away/525 ft/41 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Morris 1NWMOSI2
At a cooperative observer's station/1.5 mi away/522 ft/38 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Morris 1NW (MOSI2), 1.5 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.