Citizen station DW5254DW5254
In a volunteer observer's own ground/24.8 mi away/599 ft/1 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Now. Herrick is 54° and overcast at 3 AM. The dew point is 54°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 16 mph, gusting to 27 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 57° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 37° 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 79°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:16 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:14 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 11 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Herrick, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 10, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Decatur (IL), 44 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 36, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.46 in in the last 24 hours, 0.56 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 10 miles Fri 3 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Herrick, IllinoisReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Herrick, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 8.0 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Citizen station DW5254DW5254
In a volunteer observer's own ground/24.8 mi away/599 ft/1 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
I-70 @ IL-140SS0493
Beside a road/24.9 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Effingham1H2
At an airfield/26.3 mi away/587 ft/13 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Pana 4.7 SSEIL-SH-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.0 mi away/660 ft/60 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
PanaPNAI2
At a cooperative observer's station/10.7 mi away/640 ft/40 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 26.3 mi from Herrick, Illinois. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 1,100 ft, overcast at 1,600 ft; the ceiling is 1,100 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
56.7 F with a dew point of 55.0 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 1,100 ft.
From the west (280 degrees) at 15 mph, gusting 24 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 33 mph.
The full report of Effingham, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Pana (PNAI2), 10.7 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.