Citizen station GW6494GW6494
In a volunteer observer's own ground/14.7 mi away/501 ft/14 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 24 degrees cooler: a high of 59° after 83° today.
Now. Maeystown is 67° and overcast at 11 PM. The dew point is 67°, so the air feels oppressive. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 13 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 48° by 8 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 78°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 34°.
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 15 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Maeystown, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 23, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Bonne Terre (MO), 25 miles off.
Yesterday measured 21, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.85 in in the last 24 hours, 1.75 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 6 miles Fri 6 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Maeystown, IllinoisReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Maeystown, 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 now4 instruments
Citizen station GW6494GW6494
In a volunteer observer's own ground/14.7 mi away/501 ft/14 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
I-255/IL-3 @ ColumbiaSS0111
Beside a road/17.2 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/24.2 mi away/413 ft/74 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Rain Gage At Scott Air Force Base383209089513901
On a military installation/29.5 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Fults 3.7 ENEIL-MO-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.2 mi away/648 ft/161 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
WaterlooWTRI2
At a cooperative observer's station/8.7 mi away/702 ft/215 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 24.2 mi from Maeystown, Illinois. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 1,500 ft, overcast at 2,800 ft; the ceiling is 1,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
68.0 F with a dew point of 63.0 F, 84 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,200 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,500 ft.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 22 mph, gusting 32 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 37 mph.
The full report of Cahokia/St Louis, 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.