- 55/64/70 @ Poplar St. BridgeSS0234
Beside a road/2.8 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Now. Brooklyn is 60° and overcast at 12 AM. The dew point is 55°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 16 mph, gusting to 33 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 62° by 12 AM. Tonight falls to about 41° 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 80°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:21 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:21 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.
As of 12:00 AM in Brooklyn, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 23, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, St. Louis (Metro-east) (IL), 12 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
0.84 in in the last 24 hours, 1.90 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 5 miles Fri 6 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Brooklyn, IllinoisReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Brooklyn, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
- 55/64/70 @ Poplar St. BridgeSS0234
Beside a road/2.8 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW5557GW5557
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.8 mi away/422 ft/12 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/5.9 mi away/413 ft/3 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Mississippi River AT Mel Price LDALNI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/15.7 mi away/394 ft/16 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
East St. Louis 1.3 NWIL-SC-36
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.1 mi away/423 ft/13 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Milstadt 2SWMSTI2
At a cooperative observer's station/14.9 mi away/656 ft/246 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 5.9 mi from Brooklyn, Illinois. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:31 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 1,600 ft, overcast at 2,100 ft; the ceiling is 1,600 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
63.0 F with a dew point of 56.0 F, 78 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,600 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,600 ft.
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 21 mph, gusting 32 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 41 mph.
The full report of Cahokia/St Louis, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Mississippi River AT Mel Price LD (ALNI2), 15.7 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 05:00. 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.