Illinois River AT Starved RockSRDI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/12.9 mi away/558 ft/72 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 15 degrees cooler: a high of 56° after 71° today.
Now. Kangley is 61° and overcast at 11 PM. The dew point is 56°, so the air feels a little humid. Moderate breeze from the west-northwest at 15 mph, gusting to 26 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 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. Rain is possible tomorrow (36%). Frost is possible Saturday morning, a low of 34°.
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 11:00 PM in Kangley, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 24, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Bloomington and Normal (IL), 34 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 53, moderate.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.14 in in the last 24 hours, 0.57 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Thu 11 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Kangley, IllinoisReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Kangley, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Illinois River AT Starved RockSRDI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/12.9 mi away/558 ft/72 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
I-39/Lincoln Bridge (593000)SS0776
Beside a road/15.7 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
PontiacPNT
At an airfield/20.1 mi away/659 ft/29 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station KILEMING2KILEMING2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/31.2 mi away/730 ft/100 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Streator 1.3 WSWIL-LS-45
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.4 mi away/621 ft/9 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Streator 2SESTAI2
At a cooperative observer's station/4.9 mi away/597 ft/33 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 20.1 mi from Kangley, Illinois. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 900 ft, broken at 2,000 ft, overcast at 5,000 ft; the ceiling is 900 ft; visibility 5 mi.
59.4 F with a dew point of 59.4 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 900 ft.
From the west northwest (290 degrees) at 17 mph, gusting 25 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 35 mph.
The full report of Pontiac, 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.