I-70 @ IL-140SS0493
Beside a road/1.2 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Now. Mulberry Grove is 53° and overcast at 4 AM. The dew point is 49°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 17 mph, gusting to 27 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 57° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 37° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 79°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:17 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:16 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 11 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in Mulberry Grove, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, St. Louis (Metro-east) (IL), 45 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 39, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.85 in in the last 24 hours, 1.15 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 6 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Mulberry Grove, IllinoisReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Mulberry Grove, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.8 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
I-70 @ IL-140SS0493
Beside a road/1.2 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/25.5 mi away/574 ft/15 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW6177GW6177
In a volunteer observer's own ground/27.7 mi away/648 ft/89 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Mulberry Grove 0.7 SWIL-BD-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.8 mi away/512 ft/47 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
VandaliaVNDI2
At a cooperative observer's station/9.5 mi away/525 ft/34 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 25.5 mi from Mulberry Grove, Illinois. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:35 AM local time: 3 of its 5 sheets.
Overcast at 2,000 ft; the ceiling is 2,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
57.2 F with a dew point of 51.4 F, 81 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,300 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,000 ft.
At 574 ft above sea level, 2 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 29.31 inHg and the temperature at 57.0 F; the station's altimeter setting of 30.06 inHg means its barometer reads 29.44 inHg; it reports 57.2 F, 0.2 F warmer than standard.
The full report of Salem/Leckrone, in 5 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.