64 @ IL-160SS1911
Beside a road/4.3 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Now. Albers is 58° and overcast at 2 AM. The dew point is 56°, so the air feels a little humid. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 14 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 51° 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 81°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 61°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:19 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:19 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 12 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Albers, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 17, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, St. Louis (Metro-east) (IL), 19 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 39, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.50 in in the last 24 hours, 1.20 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 8 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Albers, IllinoisReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Albers, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
64 @ IL-160SS1911
Beside a road/4.3 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station CW8261CW8261
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.8 mi away/480 ft/44 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/12.7 mi away/440 ft/4 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Rain Gage At Scott Air Force Base383209089513901
On a military installation/13.2 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Trenton 3.3 NEIL-CT-12
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.9 mi away/482 ft/46 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Southern Illinois UniversitySIUI2
On a college campus/13.0 mi away/456 ft/20 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 12.7 mi from Albers, Illinois. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 1,000 ft, scattered at 1,400 ft, overcast at 6,000 ft; the ceiling is 6,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
57.6 F with a dew point of 57.0 F, 98 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 100 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,000 ft.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 17 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 32 mph.
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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.