Mississippi River AT Rock Island LD15RCKI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/13.9 mi away/552 ft/97 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Port Byron until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Port Byron is 47° and mostly clear at 4 AM. With the wind it feels like 41°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 13 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 54° by 1 PM. 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 58°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, 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 10:10 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in Port Byron, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 23, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Davenport (IA), 14 miles off.
Yesterday measured 19, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.31 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 9 miles Sat 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Port Byron, IllinoisReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Port Byron, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Mississippi River AT Rock Island LD15RCKI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/13.9 mi away/552 ft/97 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
MolineMLI
At an airfield/14.5 mi away/594 ft/55 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW2227DW2227
In a volunteer observer's own ground/17.1 mi away/612 ft/37 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
I-80 @ Hennepin Canal M.P. 44SS0536
Beside a road/36.0 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Hampton 0.4 WNWIL-RI-11
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.7 mi away/560 ft/89 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Rock Island L/D 15RCKI2
At a cooperative observer's station/13.9 mi away/552 ft/97 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 14.5 mi from Port Byron, Illinois. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:52 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
48.0 F with a dew point of 40.0 F, 74 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,800 ft up.
From the west northwest (290 degrees) at 15 mph, gusting 26 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 46 mph.
The full report of Moline, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Mississippi River AT Rock Island LD15 (RCKI2), 13.9 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 23:59. 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.