Ohio River At Paducah03611000
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.1 mi away/285 ft/53 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 27 degrees cooler: a high of 61° after 88° today.
Now. Brookport is 71° and mostly cloudy at 11 PM. The dew point is 65°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the west-southwest at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 53° by 7 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 75°, and the coolest Saturday, near 60°. Rain is possible tomorrow (32%). Frost is possible Sunday 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. The day is 11 hours 17 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Brookport, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 44, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Paducah (KY), 6 miles off.
Yesterday measured 34, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
0.03 in in the last 24 hours, 0.04 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Brookport, IllinoisReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Brookport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Ohio River At Paducah03611000
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.1 mi away/285 ft/53 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station EW6292EW6292
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.5 mi away/340 ft/2 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
CairoCIR
At an airfield/32.9 mi away/321 ft/17 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Metropolis 2.1 ENEIL-MC-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.9 mi away/396 ft/58 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
In a park or preserve/4.8 mi away/335 ft/3 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 32.9 mi from Brookport, Illinois. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
78.3 F with a dew point of 58.0 F, 50 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 4,700 ft up.
From the west southwest (240 degrees) at 6 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 23 mph.
The full report of Cairo, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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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.