At an airfield/4.7 mi away/472 ft/42 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Now. Marion is 60° and light drizzle at 3 AM. The dew point is 55°, so the air feels a little humid. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 10 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 50° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 41° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 78°, 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 6:17 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:19 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 13 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Marion, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 15, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Farrar (MO), 42 miles off.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.03 in in the last 24 hours, 0.39 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 7 miles Fri 8 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Marion, IllinoisReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Marion, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.9 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/4.7 mi away/472 ft/42 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Crab Orchard Fire WeatherCOWI2
On a farm or research station/5.4 mi away/433 ft/3 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW7109FW7109
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.2 mi away/460 ft/30 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Marion 0.4 SWIL-WM-30
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.9 mi away/443 ft/13 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
West FrankfortWFRI2
At a cooperative observer's station/12.3 mi away/430 ft/level with here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 4.7 mi from Marion, Illinois. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 1,300 ft, broken at 2,000 ft, overcast at 6,000 ft; the ceiling is 1,300 ft; visibility 4 mi.
59.0 F with a dew point of 55.4 F, 88 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 800 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,300 ft.
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 9 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 28 mph.
The full report of Marion Regional, 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.