Litchfield3LF
At an airfield/13.3 mi away/689 ft/68 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Now. New Douglas is 51° and overcast at 4 AM. The dew point is 48°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 14 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 57° by 3 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. The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:19 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:18 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 New Douglas, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, St. Louis (Metro-east) (IL), 32 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
0.74 in in the last 24 hours, 1.35 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 8 miles Fri 1 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over New Douglas, IllinoisReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest New Douglas, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Litchfield3LF
At an airfield/13.3 mi away/689 ft/68 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW6177GW6177
In a volunteer observer's own ground/17.4 mi away/648 ft/27 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
I-70 @ IL-140SS0493
Beside a road/22.9 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Mississippi River At Alton IlALOI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/28.3 mi away/423 ft/198 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Staunton 0.9 NEIL-MP-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.7 mi away/630 ft/9 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Mount OliveMTOI2
At a cooperative observer's station/7.2 mi away/663 ft/42 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 13.3 mi from New Douglas, Illinois. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 9,000 ft; the ceiling is 9,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
52.7 F with a dew point of 47.0 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 9,000 ft.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 15 mph, gusting 20 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 30 mph.
The full report of Litchfield, 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.