Rock River At Dixon05442300
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.8 mi away/629 ft/76 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Lost Nation until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 10 degrees cooler: a high of 56° after 66° today.
Now. Lost Nation is 58° and overcast at 10 PM. The dew point is 58°, so the air feels a little humid. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 11 mph, gusting to 22 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 44° 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 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 31°.
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 7 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Lost Nation, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Rockford (IL), 33 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 27, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.45 in in the last 24 hours, 0.46 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Thu 10 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Lost Nation, IllinoisReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Lost Nation, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.2 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Rock River At Dixon05442300
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.8 mi away/629 ft/76 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station DW2019DW2019
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.0 mi away/755 ft/50 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
RochelleRPJ
At an airfield/14.8 mi away/781 ft/76 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Shabbona 5 NNE54811
At a climate reference station/26.9 mi away/861 ft/156 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
US-20 FreeportSS1843
Beside a road/31.6 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Franklin Grove 2.4 WIL-LE-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.2 mi away/817 ft/112 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Oregon WWTPOREI2
At a water treatment plant/6.8 mi away/676 ft/29 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 14.8 mi from Lost Nation, Illinois. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 1,700 ft, overcast at 3,400 ft; the ceiling is 1,700 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
56.7 F with a dew point of 55.4 F, 95 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 300 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,700 ft.
From the west northwest (290 degrees) at 16 mph, gusting 23 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 26 mph.
The full report of Rochelle, 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.