I-72 @ US-36/US-51SS0231
Beside a road/10.6 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for Illiopolis until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Illiopolis is 51° and overcast at 3 AM. The dew point is 48°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 17 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 56° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 35° 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 78°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:16 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:13 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 9 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Illiopolis, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 14, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Decatur (IL), 15 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
0.40 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 4 miles Fri 2 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Illiopolis, IllinoisReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Illiopolis, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
I-72 @ US-36/US-51SS0231
Beside a road/10.6 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
DecaturDEC
At an airfield/20.2 mi away/679 ft/74 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW4825FW4825
In a volunteer observer's own ground/23.7 mi away/551 ft/54 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Illiopolis 4.2 NEIL-MA-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.1 mi away/597 ft/8 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
BuffaloBUFI2
At a cooperative observer's station/9.0 mi away/597 ft/8 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 20.2 mi from Illiopolis, Illinois. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:31 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 2,600 ft, scattered at 3,500 ft, overcast at 11,000 ft; the ceiling is 11,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
53.0 F with a dew point of 48.0 F, 83 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,200 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,600 ft.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 17 mph, gusting 25 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 37 mph.
The full report of Decatur, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Buffalo (BUFI2), 9.0 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.