- 39 MP 81 Lee CountySS1841
Beside a road/12.9 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Mendota, Illinois
City in LaSalle County, Illinois* WHAT...Temperatures as low as 34 will result in frost formation. * WHERE...La Salle and Kendall Counties. * WHEN...From 5 AM to 8 AM CDT Saturday. * IMPACTS...Frost could harm sensitive outdoor vegetation. Sensitive outdoor plants may be killed if left uncovered.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
53°
56°/44°
Overcast·
Feels like 53°·Moderate breeze 15 mph WNW
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for Mendota until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Mendota is 53° and overcast at 1 AM. The dew point is 49°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the west-northwest at 15 mph, gusting to 26 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 32° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:14 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:05 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 6 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
9Air quality
87%Humidity
96%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
53feels53
15mph
Today
Oct 16
5644
27%
19mph
Sat
Oct 17
5732
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6436
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
6840
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7142
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7345
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7449
11%
53°
56°44°
57°32°
64°36°
68°40°
71°42°
73°45°
74°49°
As of 1:00 AM in Mendota, Illinois.
Air quality
The air at Mendota
Index 9, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Aurora and Elgin (IL), 40 miles off.
9Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)9Good-
- Ozone8Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 23, good.
GoodModerate
- 23YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
- GoodMonOct 19
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Mendota
0.43 in in the last 24 hours, 0.56 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.43in
- Last 3 days
- 0.56in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 77%
Visibility
How far you can see at Mendota, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Mendota, IllinoisReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Mendota, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Rank950of 1,393
PeruVYS
At an airfield/13.8 mi away/653 ft/90 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Starved Rock Met Station Near North Utica411926088585501
At a river or reservoir gauge/17.2 mi away/467 ft/276 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Shabbona 5 NNE54811
At a climate reference station/24.4 mi away/861 ft/118 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Citizen station DW5640DW5640
In a volunteer observer's own ground/29.7 mi away/799 ft/56 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Mendota 0.6 WSWIL-LS-77
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.5 mi away/757 ft/14 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Mendota 1SMDTI2
At a cooperative observer's station/1.4 mi away/719 ft/24 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
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