SpartaSAR
At an airfield/11.5 mi away/538 ft/95 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Now. Lenzburg is 53° and overcast at 6 AM. The dew point is 49°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 13 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 57° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 38° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 80°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:20 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:21 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 12 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 6:00 AM in Lenzburg, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 6 AM from its reporting area, St. Louis (Metro-east) (IL), 21 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
0.20 in in the last 24 hours, 1.25 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 5 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 6 miles Fri 5 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Lenzburg, IllinoisReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Lenzburg, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
SpartaSAR
At an airfield/11.5 mi away/538 ft/95 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW3924GW3924
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.8 mi away/443 ft/level with here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Rain Gage At Scott Air Force Base383209089513901
On a military installation/17.3 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
64 @ IL-160SS1911
Beside a road/17.3 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
St. LiborySTBI2
At a cooperative observer's station/7.4 mi away/420 ft/23 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Baldwin 3.0 EIL-RH-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.6 mi away/443 ft/level with here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 11.5 mi from Lenzburg, Illinois. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 6:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 2,600 ft, overcast at 3,200 ft; the ceiling is 2,600 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
55.6 F with a dew point of 48.6 F, 77 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,600 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,600 ft.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 9 mph, gusting 18 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 32 mph.
The full report of Sparta, 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.