Mount CarmelAJG
At an airfield/13.4 mi away/430 ft/9 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Now. Mount Carmel is 71° and overcast at 12 AM. The dew point is 70°, so the air feels oppressive. Gentle breeze from the west 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. Air quality is moderate (index 53): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 78°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:12 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:12 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 12:00 AM in Mount Carmel, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 53, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Evansville (IN), 30 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 44, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.16 in in the last 24 hours, 1.10 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 5 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 Mount Carmel, IllinoisReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Mount Carmel, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.4 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Mount CarmelAJG
At an airfield/13.4 mi away/430 ft/9 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Posey 3 (Py 3)380758087551001
At a river or reservoir gauge/21.3 mi away/381 ft/58 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW1422FW1422
In a volunteer observer's own ground/32.7 mi away/465 ft/26 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Mount Carmel 4.2 NWIL-WB-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.4 mi away/492 ft/53 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
LawrencevilleLWVI2
At a cooperative observer's station/21.9 mi away/463 ft/24 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 13.4 mi from Mount Carmel, Illinois. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:35 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 7,000 ft, overcast at 8,000 ft; the ceiling is 7,000 ft; visibility 7 mi.
74.5 F with a dew point of 73.8 F, 98 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 200 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 7,000 ft.
From the southwest (220 degrees) at 13 mph, gusting 17 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 17 mph.
The full report of Mount Carmel, 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.