I-57 ChebanseSS1922
Beside a road/16.0 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Now. Crescent City is 51° and overcast at 4 AM. The dew point is 45°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the west-northwest at 15 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.
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 8 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in Crescent City, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 15, good, led by ozone. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Champaign (IL), 44 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 42, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.09 in in the last 24 hours, 0.11 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 10 miles Sun 1 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Crescent City, IllinoisReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Crescent City, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.0 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
I-57 ChebanseSS1922
Beside a road/16.0 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station DW8462DW8462
In a volunteer observer's own ground/16.7 mi away/681 ft/42 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
KankakeeIKK
At an airfield/20.7 mi away/630 ft/9 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Watseka 6.9 WNWIL-IR-14
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.0 mi away/641 ft/2 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Watseka Public WorksWATI2
At a cooperative observer's station/6.3 mi away/627 ft/12 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 20.7 mi from Crescent City, Illinois. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 2,600 ft; the ceiling is 2,600 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
53.0 F with a dew point of 44.6 F, 73 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,900 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,600 ft.
From the west northwest (300 degrees) at 16 mph, gusting 26 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
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Watseka Public Works (WATI2), 6.3 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. 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.