Litchfield3LF
At an airfield/5.9 mi away/689 ft/38 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for Lake Ka-Ho until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Lake Ka-Ho is 50° and overcast at 5 AM. The dew point is 48°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 14 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 57° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 78°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:19 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:18 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 5:00 AM in Lake Ka-Ho, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, St. Louis (Metro-east) (IL), 38 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 39, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
1.10 in in the last 24 hours, 1.35 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 9 miles Fri 4 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Lake Ka-Ho, IllinoisReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Lake Ka-Ho, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Litchfield3LF
At an airfield/5.9 mi away/689 ft/38 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW6177GW6177
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.9 mi away/648 ft/3 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
US-67 @ Clark BridgeSS0110
Beside a road/27.1 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Mississippi River At Alton IlALOI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/27.6 mi away/423 ft/228 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Eagarville 0.2 SIL-MP-22
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.2 mi away/638 ft/13 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Mount OliveMTOI2
At a cooperative observer's station/3.0 mi away/663 ft/12 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 5.9 mi from Lake Ka-Ho, Illinois. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 2,100 ft, broken at 2,600 ft, overcast at 11,000 ft; the ceiling is 2,100 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
53.0 F with a dew point of 47.0 F, 80 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,400 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,100 ft.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 15 mph, gusting 22 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 30 mph.
The full report of Litchfield, 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.