Crab Orchard Fire WeatherCOWI2
On a farm or research station/9.0 mi away/433 ft/321 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Now. Goreville is 52° and overcast at 10 AM. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 11 mph, gusting to 26 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 57° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 41° 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 77°, 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 6:17 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:20 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 13 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 AM in Goreville, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 22, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 AM from its reporting area, Paducah (KY), 40 miles off.
Yesterday measured 43, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 AM.
Precipitation
0.13 in in the last 24 hours, 0.58 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 9 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 7 AM, lowest 10 miles Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Goreville, IllinoisReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Goreville, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.0 miles away.
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Crab Orchard Fire WeatherCOWI2
On a farm or research station/9.0 mi away/433 ft/321 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/14.2 mi away/472 ft/282 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW7109FW7109
In a volunteer observer's own ground/14.5 mi away/460 ft/294 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
146 @ McClureSS0235
Beside a road/34.0 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Goreville 3.8 NEIL-JH-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.0 mi away/617 ft/137 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Anna 2 NNEANNI2
At a cooperative observer's station/14.8 mi away/640 ft/114 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 14.2 mi from Goreville, Illinois. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 9:45 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
A few clouds at 3,400 ft, overcast at 10,000 ft; the ceiling is 10,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
53.6 F with a dew point of 41.0 F, 62 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,900 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 3,400 ft.
From the north (350 degrees) at 17 mph, gusting 26 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 28 mph.
The full report of Marion Regional, 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.