Citizen station CW8261CW8261
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.1 mi away/480 ft/45 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Now. Germantown is 64° and overcast at 12 AM. The dew point is 63°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 14 mph, gusting to 25 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 51° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 39° by 7 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 81°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 61°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:19 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:19 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Germantown, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 20, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, St. Louis (Metro-east) (IL), 23 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
0.22 in in the last 24 hours, 0.71 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 4 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Germantown, IllinoisReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Germantown, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station CW8261CW8261
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.1 mi away/480 ft/45 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
64 @ IL-160SS1911
Beside a road/8.5 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/17.0 mi away/440 ft/5 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Rain Gage At Scott Air Force Base383209089513901
On a military installation/17.5 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Bartelso 1.7 EIL-CT-10
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.5 mi away/454 ft/19 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Carlyle ReservoirCAYI2
At a reservoir/10.4 mi away/499 ft/64 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 17.0 mi from Germantown, Illinois. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:57 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 1,200 ft, overcast at 1,700 ft; the ceiling is 1,200 ft; visibility 7 mi.
62.6 F with a dew point of 60.8 F, 94 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 400 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,200 ft.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 21 mph, gusting 30 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 37 mph.
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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.