Citizen station CW2101CW2101
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.0 mi away/725 ft/10 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Lake of the Woods, Illinois
70°
74°/43°
Clear·
Feels like 70°·Light air 1 mph SW
Now. Lake of the Woods is 70° and clear at 1 PM. The dew point is 40°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the southwest at 1 mph.
Where now comes from. The forecast for this hour, checked against 3 instruments within 34 miles. The nearest, Citizen station CW2101 (247 rank 1,279 in Illinois), read at 12:46 PM.
Today and tonight. It warms until about 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 46° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Sunday, near 76°, and the coolest Tuesday, near 68°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:05 PM. The Moon is a waxing gibbous, 79% lit, and sets at 3:21 AM after midnight. 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 bright Moon hides all but the brightest of them. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 10 hours 56 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
5UV Moderate
38Air quality
33%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
1:00 PM
70feels70
now, clear
Today
Oct 21
7443
clear
Thu
Oct 22
7446
clear
Fri
Oct 23
7346
clear
Sat
Oct 24
7346
mostly clear
Sun
Oct 25
7647
overcast
Mon
Oct 26
7549
overcast
Tue
Oct 27
6848
overcast
As of 1:00 PM in Lake of the Woods, Illinois.
Air quality
The air at Lake of the Woods
Index 38, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 PM from its reporting area, Champaign (IL), 4 miles off.
38Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)36Good10.9 mi
- Ozone38Good58 ppb9.4 mi
The days ahead
Moderate each day through Fri Oct 23, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 51, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 51YesterdayOct 20
- ModerateTodayOct 21
- ModerateThuOct 22
- ModerateFriOct 23
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Fri 7 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Lake of the Woods
None in the last 3 days, to Wed 12 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Lake of the Woods, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Fri 7 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Lake of the Woods, IllinoisReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Lake of the Woods, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Rank1,279of 1,420
Copper Slough At Champaign05590050
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.1 mi away/695 ft/40 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Champaign 9 SW54808
At a climate reference station/10.8 mi away/700 ft/35 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
At an airfield/12.8 mi away/745 ft/10 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
US-51 @ HeyworthSS1921
Beside a road/33.8 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Mahomet 2.3 ENEIL-CP-85
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/749 ft/14 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/7.6 mi away/709 ft/26 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Champaign - Willard, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 12.8 mi from Lake of the Woods, Illinois. From its report of Oct 21, 2026, 12:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Illinois
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.