FairfieldFWC
At an airfield/13.6 mi away/436 ft/76 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 24 degrees cooler: a high of 59° after 83° today.
Now. Mount Erie is 70° and mostly cloudy at 11 PM. The dew point is 70°, so the air feels oppressive. Gentle breeze from the west-southwest at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 51° by 8 AM, with some cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 76°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 33°.
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. 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 14 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Mount Erie, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 21, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Vincennes (IN), 47 miles off.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.20 in in the last 24 hours, 1.35 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Mount Erie, IllinoisReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Mount Erie, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
FairfieldFWC
At an airfield/13.6 mi away/436 ft/76 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
FloraFOAI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/16.8 mi away/490 ft/22 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW1422FW1422
In a volunteer observer's own ground/20.6 mi away/465 ft/47 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
US 50 at GreendaleMX9208
Beside a road/26.4 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Clay City 6SSECLYI2
At a cooperative observer's station/7.6 mi away/459 ft/53 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Fairfield 1.3 EIL-WY-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.2 mi away/465 ft/47 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 13.6 mi from Mount Erie, Illinois. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 4,700 ft, scattered at 5,500 ft, overcast at 8,500 ft; the ceiling is 8,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
72.0 F with a dew point of 69.8 F, 93 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 500 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 4,700 ft.
From the southwest (220 degrees) at 5 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 16 mph.
The full report of Fairfield, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Clay City 6SSE (CLYI2), 7.6 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 06:00. measured daily
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.