I-57 ChebanseSS1922
Beside a road/17.2 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for Donovan until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 8 degrees warmer: a high of 67° after 59° today.
Now. Donovan is 38° and mostly cloudy at 6 AM. The dew point is 33°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the north-northeast at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 59° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 37° by 6 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 76°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 67°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:07 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 11:02 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 6:00 AM in Donovan, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 18, good, led by ozone. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Joliet and Will County (IL), 44 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 19, good.
No smoke near the ground through Mon 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.02 in in the last 24 hours, 0.07 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 5 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Mon 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Donovan, IllinoisReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Donovan, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
I-57 ChebanseSS1922
Beside a road/17.2 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
KankakeeIKK
At an airfield/17.7 mi away/630 ft/45 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW8462DW8462
In a volunteer observer's own ground/19.7 mi away/681 ft/6 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Rain Gage Near Goodenow412354087370001
At a river or reservoir gauge/35.5 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Donovan 5.8 SEIL-IR-29
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.8 mi away/670 ft/5 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Watseka Public WorksWATI2
At a cooperative observer's station/9.4 mi away/627 ft/48 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 17.7 mi from Donovan, Illinois. From its report of Oct 17, 2026, 6:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 2,600 ft, overcast at 3,200 ft; the ceiling is 2,600 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
40.0 F with a dew point of 33.8 F, 78 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,400 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,600 ft.
From the north northeast (30 degrees) at 3 mph: force 1, a light air on the Beaufort scale.
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
Measured at Watseka Public Works (WATI2), 9.4 miles from here, read 16 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.