Champaign 9 SW54808
At a climate reference station/13.9 mi away/700 ft/18 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Now. Bement is 62° and overcast at 12 AM. The dew point is 59°, so the air feels a little humid. Moderate breeze from the west-northwest at 15 mph, gusting to 25 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 48° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 78°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:14 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:10 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 10 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Bement, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 28, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Decatur (IL), 21 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 45, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.26 in in the last 24 hours, 0.31 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 12 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Bement, IllinoisReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Bement, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.5 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Champaign 9 SW54808
At a climate reference station/13.9 mi away/700 ft/18 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
DecaturDEC
At an airfield/16.7 mi away/679 ft/3 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Copper Slough At Champaign05590050
At a river or reservoir gauge/18.6 mi away/695 ft/13 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW0668FW0668
In a volunteer observer's own ground/23.0 mi away/744 ft/62 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
I-72 @ US-36/US-51SS0231
Beside a road/25.5 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Bement 1.5 SEIL-PT-26
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.5 mi away/671 ft/11 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
CiscoCISI2
At a cooperative observer's station/10.1 mi away/699 ft/17 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 16.7 mi from Bement, Illinois. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:54 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 600 ft, broken at 2,000 ft, overcast at 2,900 ft; the ceiling is 600 ft; visibility 4 mi.
63.0 F with a dew point of 62.0 F, 97 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 200 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 600 ft.
From the west northwest (290 degrees) at 18 mph, gusting 33 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 39 mph.
The full report of Decatur, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Cisco (CISI2), 10.1 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 06:00. 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.