Starved Rock Met Station Near North Utica411926088585501
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.5 mi away/467 ft/104 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for North Utica until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. North Utica is 54° and overcast at 1 AM. The dew point is 45°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the west-northwest at 16 mph, gusting to 26 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 33° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:14 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:06 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in North Utica, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 9, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Aurora and Elgin (IL), 45 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 23, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.95 in in the last 24 hours, 1.05 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 10 miles Fri 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
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The 7 instruments nearest North Utica, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.5 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Starved Rock Met Station Near North Utica411926088585501
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.5 mi away/467 ft/104 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
- 39 MP 81 Lee CountySS1841
Beside a road/2.6 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
PeruVYS
At an airfield/6.8 mi away/653 ft/82 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Shabbona 5 NNE54811
At a climate reference station/35.4 mi away/861 ft/290 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Citizen station DW9987DW9987
In a volunteer observer's own ground/36.4 mi away/653 ft/82 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Peru 0.3 NEIL-LS-16
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.3 mi away/643 ft/72 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
PeruPRUI2
At a cooperative observer's station/5.8 mi away/617 ft/46 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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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.