RockfordRFD
At an airfield/6.7 mi away/722 ft/83 ft below here
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Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Davis Junction until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Davis Junction is 45° and overcast at 7 AM. With the wind it feels like 39°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the west-northwest at 13 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 54° by 12 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:13 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 4 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 7:00 AM in Davis Junction, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 17, good, led by fine particles. Read at 7 AM from its reporting area, Rockford (IL), 16 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 18, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.41 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 6 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 9 miles Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Davis Junction, IllinoisReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Davis Junction, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
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RockfordRFD
At an airfield/6.7 mi away/722 ft/83 ft below here
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Citizen station FW2698FW2698
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.9 mi away/781 ft/24 ft below here
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ShabbonaSBNI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/21.7 mi away/863 ft/58 ft above here
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Harmony @ GenoaIMC01
Beside a road/21.7 mi away/830 ft/25 ft above here
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Shabbona 5 NNE54811
At a climate reference station/21.9 mi away/861 ft/56 ft above here
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measured daily2 instruments
Davis Junction 0.8 WSWIL-OG-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.2 mi away/814 ft/9 ft above here
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Oregon WWTPOREI2
At a water treatment plant/13.1 mi away/676 ft/129 ft below here
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Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 6.7 mi from Davis Junction, Illinois. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 6:54 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 2,400 ft; the ceiling is 2,400 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
48.0 F with a dew point of 41.0 F, 77 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,600 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,400 ft.
From the west (280 degrees) at 17 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 36 mph.
The full report of Rockford, 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.