Citizen station GW6498GW6498
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.2 mi away/866 ft/51 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 11 degrees cooler: a high of 54° after 65° today.
Now. Burlington is 58° and overcast at 11 PM. The dew point is 54°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 12 mph, gusting to 28 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 45° by 6 AM, under cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 32°.
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 8 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Burlington, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 16, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Aurora and Elgin (IL), 17 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 28, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.32 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Thu 11 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Burlington, IllinoisReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Burlington, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.2 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Citizen station GW6498GW6498
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.2 mi away/866 ft/51 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
De KalbDKB
At an airfield/11.5 mi away/915 ft/2 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Harmony @ GenoaIMC01
Beside a road/11.9 mi away/830 ft/87 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Tyler Creek At Elgin05550300
At a river or reservoir gauge/12.5 mi away/745 ft/172 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Shabbona 5 NNE54811
At a climate reference station/21.3 mi away/861 ft/56 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Hampshire 5.2 SSEIL-KN-84
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.2 mi away/962 ft/45 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Genoa 2SWGEOI2
At a cooperative observer's station/8.4 mi away/827 ft/90 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 11.5 mi from Burlington, Illinois. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 1,400 ft, overcast at 2,100 ft; the ceiling is 1,400 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
55.8 F with a dew point of 54.5 F, 95 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 300 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,400 ft.
From the west northwest (290 degrees) at 15 mph, gusting 22 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 26 mph.
The full report of De Kalb, 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.