Crab Orchard Fire WeatherCOWI2
On a farm or research station/9.9 mi away/433 ft/70 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Now. Creal Springs is 66° and overcast at 2 AM. The dew point is 57°, so the air feels a little humid. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 10 mph, gusting to 20 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 51° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 41° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 79°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:17 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:19 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 14 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Creal Springs, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 39, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Paducah (KY), 41 miles off.
Yesterday measured 36, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.01 in in the last 24 hours, 0.38 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 7 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Creal Springs, IllinoisReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Creal Springs, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.2 miles away.
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Crab Orchard Fire WeatherCOWI2
On a farm or research station/9.9 mi away/433 ft/70 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/13.3 mi away/472 ft/31 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW7109FW7109
In a volunteer observer's own ground/15.1 mi away/460 ft/43 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Creal Springs 2.2 WIL-WM-18
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.2 mi away/613 ft/110 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Agricultural CenterDSAI2
On a farm or research station/15.9 mi away/535 ft/32 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 13.3 mi from Creal Springs, Illinois. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 1,800 ft; the ceiling is 1,800 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
64.4 F with a dew point of 55.4 F, 73 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,100 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,800 ft.
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 10 mph, gusting 20 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 28 mph.
The full report of Marion Regional, 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.