I-80 @ Hennepin Canal M.P. 44SS0536
Beside a road/12.3 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Coming up. Tomorrow is 13 degrees cooler: a high of 56° after 69° today.
Now. Princeton is 62° and overcast at 10 PM. The dew point is 55°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the west-northwest at 14 mph, gusting to 24 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 44° by 7 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. Rain is possible tomorrow (34%). Frost is possible Saturday 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-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 day is 11 hours 9 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Princeton, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 23, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Peoria (IL), 40 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 52, moderate.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.48 in in the last 24 hours, 0.75 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Thu 10 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Princeton, IllinoisReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Princeton, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
I-80 @ Hennepin Canal M.P. 44SS0536
Beside a road/12.3 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
PeruVYS
At an airfield/16.3 mi away/653 ft/49 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Starved Rock Met Station Near North Utica411926088585501
At a river or reservoir gauge/25.4 mi away/467 ft/235 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station DW4895DW4895
In a volunteer observer's own ground/32.6 mi away/698 ft/4 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Princeton 1.0 SSWIL-BU-15
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/704 ft/2 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
HennepinHNPI2
At a cooperative observer's station/10.7 mi away/513 ft/189 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Hennepin (HNPI2), 10.7 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 17:00. 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.