MolineMLI
At an airfield/20.7 mi away/594 ft/13 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Hillsdale until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Hillsdale is 49° and partly cloudy at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 43°. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the west-northwest at 15 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 54° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 7 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 75°, 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 6:18 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:09 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 5 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Hillsdale, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 17, good, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Clinton (IA), 16 miles off.
Yesterday measured 22, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.27 in in the last 24 hours, 0.29 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. 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 Hillsdale, IllinoisReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Hillsdale, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
MolineMLI
At an airfield/20.7 mi away/594 ft/13 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Mississippi River AT Fulton LD13FLTI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/21.3 mi away/577 ft/4 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station DW2227DW2227
In a volunteer observer's own ground/23.2 mi away/612 ft/31 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
I-80 @ Hennepin Canal M.P. 44SS0536
Beside a road/28.6 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Geneseo 4.8 NNWIL-HY-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.0 mi away/692 ft/111 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
GeneseoGINI2
At a cooperative observer's station/11.0 mi away/636 ft/55 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 20.7 mi from Hillsdale, Illinois. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:52 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
50.0 F with a dew point of 40.0 F, 68 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,300 ft up.
From the west (280 degrees) at 16 mph, gusting 29 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 35 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
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.