FairfieldFWC
At an airfield/19.6 mi away/436 ft/17 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Now. Enfield is 68° and overcast at 1 AM. The dew point is 66°, so the air feels oppressive. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 11 mph, gusting to 21 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 51° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 40° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Air quality is moderate (index 53): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 78°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:14 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:15 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 1:00 AM in Enfield, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 53, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Evansville (IN), 42 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 51, moderate.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.03 in in the last 24 hours, 0.83 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 5 miles Fri 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Enfield, IllinoisReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Enfield, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.3 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
FairfieldFWC
At an airfield/19.6 mi away/436 ft/17 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Posey 3 (Py 3)380758087551001
At a river or reservoir gauge/22.7 mi away/381 ft/72 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW4509FW4509
In a volunteer observer's own ground/36.2 mi away/511 ft/58 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
McLeansboro 7.8 SEIL-HM-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.3 mi away/411 ft/42 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
FairfieldFFDI2
At a cooperative observer's station/19.5 mi away/486 ft/33 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 19.6 mi from Enfield, Illinois. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 1,300 ft, broken at 2,700 ft, overcast at 8,000 ft; the ceiling is 2,700 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
69.4 F with a dew point of 64.2 F, 84 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 1,300 ft.
From the west northwest (300 degrees) at 10 mph, gusting 23 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 23 mph.
The full report of Fairfield, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Fairfield (FFDI2), 19.5 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. 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.