Mason Tazewell Drainage D Rain Gage Nr Topeka401934089541708
At a river or reservoir gauge/13.1 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for Banner until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Banner is 52° and mostly cloudy at 3 AM. The dew point is 48°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the west-northwest at 14 mph, gusting to 27 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 56° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 35° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. 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 58°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:18 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:13 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 8 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Banner, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 13, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Peoria (IL), 28 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 25, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.06 in in the last 24 hours, 0.19 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 7 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Banner, IllinoisReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Banner, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.9 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Mason Tazewell Drainage D Rain Gage Nr Topeka401934089541708
At a river or reservoir gauge/13.1 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
- 9 @ McNaughton BridgeSS1900
Beside a road/14.1 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station FW0283FW0283
In a volunteer observer's own ground/15.3 mi away/520 ft/41 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
PeoriaPIA
At an airfield/15.9 mi away/673 ft/194 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Canton 1 ESECANI2
At a cooperative observer's station/5.9 mi away/650 ft/171 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Canton 1.2 ESEIL-FL-17
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.3 mi away/656 ft/177 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 15.9 mi from Banner, Illinois. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:54 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 2,300 ft, broken at 2,900 ft, overcast at 3,500 ft; the ceiling is 2,900 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
53.0 F with a dew point of 47.0 F, 80 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,400 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,300 ft.
From the west northwest (300 degrees) at 10 mph, gusting 23 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 36 mph.
The full report of Peoria, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Canton 1 ESE (CANI2), 5.9 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. 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.