SpartaSAR
At an airfield/10.8 mi away/538 ft/38 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Now. Cutler is 54° and overcast at 4 AM. The dew point is 49°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 15 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 58° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 39° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
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 6:19 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:21 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 12 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in Cutler, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, St. Louis (Metro-east) (IL), 44 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 39, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.06 in in the last 24 hours, 1.20 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Cutler, IllinoisReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Cutler, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
SpartaSAR
At an airfield/10.8 mi away/538 ft/38 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW7278FW7278
In a volunteer observer's own ground/16.3 mi away/635 ft/135 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Big Muddy Subimpoundment AT Big Muddy SubimpoundmentBSII2
At a river or reservoir gauge/32.0 mi away/404 ft/96 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
64 @ IL-160SS1911
Beside a road/34.0 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Percy 0.7 SSWIL-RH-18
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.6 mi away/482 ft/18 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
WillisvilleWLVI2
At a cooperative observer's station/3.8 mi away/495 ft/5 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 10.8 mi from Cutler, Illinois. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 2,700 ft, broken at 7,000 ft, overcast at 8,500 ft; the ceiling is 7,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
56.3 F with a dew point of 47.5 F, 72 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,000 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,700 ft.
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 12 mph, gusting 20 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 32 mph.
The full report of Sparta, 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.