PontiacPNT
At an airfield/12.8 mi away/659 ft/12 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Now. Flanagan is 44° and mostly clear at 7 AM. With the wind it feels like 37°. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the west-northwest at 14 mph, gusting to 28 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 55° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 77°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow 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 10:07 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 7 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 7:00 AM in Flanagan, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 24, good, led by fine particles. Read at 7 AM from its reporting area, Bloomington and Normal (IL), 16 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 29, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.09 in in the last 24 hours, 0.28 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 6 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 10 miles Sat 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Flanagan, IllinoisReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Flanagan, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
PontiacPNT
At an airfield/12.8 mi away/659 ft/12 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW2710FW2710
In a volunteer observer's own ground/21.1 mi away/793 ft/122 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
- 17 @ Illinois RiverSS1920
Beside a road/30.6 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Starved Rock Met Station Near North Utica411926088585501
At a river or reservoir gauge/31.5 mi away/467 ft/204 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Flanagan 0.4 NNEIL-LV-27
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.4 mi away/678 ft/7 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
MinonkMINI2
At a cooperative observer's station/9.4 mi away/732 ft/61 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 12.8 mi from Flanagan, Illinois. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 6:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 2,200 ft, broken at 2,600 ft; the ceiling is 2,200 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
47.7 F with a dew point of 42.3 F, 81 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 2,200 ft.
From the west northwest (300 degrees) at 16 mph, gusting 28 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 37 mph.
The full report of Pontiac, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Minonk (MINI2), 9.4 miles from here, read 15 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.