Mississippi River AT Rock Island LD15RCKI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.7 mi away/552 ft/122 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 11 degrees cooler: a high of 56° after 67° today.
Now. Hampton is 54° and overcast at 10 PM. The dew point is 49°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 13 mph, gusting to 28 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 45° by 7 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 32°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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 day is 11 hours 9 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Hampton, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 9, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Davenport (IA), 9 miles off.
Yesterday measured 30, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.30 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Hampton, IllinoisReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Hampton, 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
Mississippi River AT Rock Island LD15RCKI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.7 mi away/552 ft/122 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
MolineMLI
At an airfield/8.9 mi away/594 ft/80 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW2227DW2227
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.5 mi away/612 ft/62 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
I-80 @ Hennepin Canal M.P. 44SS0536
Beside a road/38.2 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Hampton 0.4 WNWIL-RI-11
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.4 mi away/560 ft/114 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Rock Island L/D 15RCKI2
At a cooperative observer's station/8.7 mi away/552 ft/122 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 8.9 mi from Hampton, Illinois. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 9:52 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 1,500 ft; the ceiling is 1,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
54.0 F with a dew point of 50.0 F, 86 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 900 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,500 ft.
From the west northwest (300 degrees) at 18 mph, gusting 28 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 40 mph.
The full report of Moline, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Mississippi River AT Rock Island LD15 (RCKI2), 8.7 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 23:59. 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.