I-57 ChebanseSS1922
Beside a road/4.5 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Now. Clifton is 53° and overcast at 3 AM. The dew point is 46°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the west-northwest at 17 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 55° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° 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 75°, 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 6:10 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:03 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 7 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Clifton, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 10, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Joliet and Will County (IL), 33 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
0.07 in in the last 24 hours, 0.12 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 10 miles Fri 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Clifton, IllinoisReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Clifton, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
I-57 ChebanseSS1922
Beside a road/4.5 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station DW8462DW8462
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.6 mi away/681 ft/20 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
KankakeeIKK
At an airfield/10.3 mi away/630 ft/31 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Rain Gage At Wilton Center412104087573401
At a river or reservoir gauge/28.6 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Clifton 0.1 ENEIL-IR-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.1 mi away/666 ft/5 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
St AnneSAAI2
At a cooperative observer's station/12.8 mi away/669 ft/8 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 10.3 mi from Clifton, Illinois. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 2,300 ft, overcast at 3,000 ft; the ceiling is 2,300 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
53.8 F with a dew point of 46.2 F, 75 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,700 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,300 ft.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 16 mph, gusting 25 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 33 mph.
The full report of Kankakee, 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.