I-70 @ IL-49 CaseySS1927
Beside a road/17.5 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Now. Rose Hill is 61° and overcast at 2 AM. The dew point is 57°, so the air feels a little humid. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 13 mph, gusting to 26 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 49° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 39° 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 78°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:13 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:11 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 2:00 AM in Rose Hill, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 20, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Vincennes (IN), 40 miles off.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.68 in in the last 24 hours, 1.40 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 2 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Rose Hill, IllinoisReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Rose Hill, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.8 miles away.
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I-70 @ IL-49 CaseySS1927
Beside a road/17.5 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station FW1289FW1289
In a volunteer observer's own ground/17.7 mi away/600 ft/38 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Effingham1H2
At an airfield/20.6 mi away/587 ft/25 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
FloraFOAI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/35.3 mi away/490 ft/72 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Hidalgo 0.8 SSWIL-JS-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.8 mi away/574 ft/12 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Newton 1WNWTI2
At a cooperative observer's station/8.0 mi away/529 ft/33 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 20.6 mi from Rose Hill, Illinois. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 900 ft; the ceiling is 900 ft; visibility 7 mi.
57.4 F with a dew point of 55.8 F, 94 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 400 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 900 ft.
From the west (270 degrees) at 17 mph, gusting 24 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 33 mph.
The full report of Effingham, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Newton 1W (NWTI2), 8.0 miles from here, read 14 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.