I-255/IL-3 @ ColumbiaSS0111
Beside a road/4.5 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Now. East Carondelet is 57° and overcast at 2 AM. The dew point is 52°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 14 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 58° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 41° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 80°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:22 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:22 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 2:00 AM in East Carondelet, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 17, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, St. Louis (Metro-east) (IL), 14 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 39, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.48 in in the last 24 hours, 1.45 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 7 miles Fri 7 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over East Carondelet, IllinoisReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest East Carondelet, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
I-255/IL-3 @ ColumbiaSS0111
Beside a road/4.5 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/4.6 mi away/413 ft/8 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station KC9UAWKC9UAW
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.1 mi away/571 ft/166 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Rain Gage At Scott Air Force Base383209089513901
On a military installation/20.0 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Dupo 0.4 NNEIL-SC-10
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.7 mi away/407 ft/2 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Milstadt 2SWMSTI2
At a cooperative observer's station/8.5 mi away/656 ft/251 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 4.6 mi from East Carondelet, Illinois. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 1,700 ft, overcast at 2,500 ft; the ceiling is 1,700 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
57.0 F with a dew point of 52.0 F, 83 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,200 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,700 ft.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 13 mph, gusting 23 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 35 mph.
The full report of Cahokia/St Louis, 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.