LaconC75
At an airfield/8.3 mi away/568 ft/115 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for La Rose until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. La Rose is 51° and overcast at 11 AM. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 11 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 54° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° 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 57°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:15 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:08 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 7 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 AM in La Rose, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 25, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 AM from its reporting area, Peoria (IL), 20 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 25, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 AM.
Precipitation
0.10 in in the last 24 hours, 0.19 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 10 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 7 AM, lowest 9 miles Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over La Rose, IllinoisReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest La Rose, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 8.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
LaconC75
At an airfield/8.3 mi away/568 ft/115 ft below here
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- 17 @ Illinois RiverSS1920
Beside a road/9.8 mi away/-/- ft from here
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Citizen station KB9MXLKB9MXL
In a volunteer observer's own ground/14.0 mi away/772 ft/89 ft above here
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Starved Rock Met Station Near North Utica411926088585501
At a river or reservoir gauge/27.1 mi away/467 ft/216 ft below here
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measured daily2 instruments
Lacon 4.3 NEIL-MH-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.5 mi away/659 ft/24 ft below here
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LaconLCOI2
At a cooperative observer's station/9.8 mi away/463 ft/220 ft below here
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Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 8.3 mi from La Rose, Illinois. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 11:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 2,200 ft; the ceiling is 2,200 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
50.0 F with a dew point of 41.5 F, 72 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,900 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,200 ft.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 12 mph, gusting 20 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 28 mph.
The full report of Lacon, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Lacon (LCOI2), 9.8 miles from here, read 13 Oct, 08:00. 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.