At an airfield/1.4 mi away/413 ft/3 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Now. Sauget is 63° and overcast at 12 AM. The dew point is 54°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 17 mph, gusting to 33 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 51° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 40° 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 80°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:21 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:21 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Sauget, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 23, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, St. Louis (Metro-east) (IL), 11 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
0.56 in in the last 24 hours, 1.80 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 7 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Sauget, IllinoisReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Sauget, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/1.4 mi away/413 ft/3 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
- 55/64/70 @ Poplar St. BridgeSS0234
Beside a road/1.9 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station KC9UAWKC9UAW
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.9 mi away/571 ft/161 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Rain Gage At Scott Air Force Base383209089513901
On a military installation/17.0 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
East St. Louis 1.3 NWIL-SC-36
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.0 mi away/423 ft/13 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Milstadt 2SWMSTI2
At a cooperative observer's station/10.3 mi away/656 ft/246 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 1.4 mi from Sauget, Illinois. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:31 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 1,600 ft, overcast at 2,100 ft; the ceiling is 1,600 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
63.0 F with a dew point of 56.0 F, 78 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,600 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,600 ft.
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 21 mph, gusting 32 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 41 mph.
The full report of Cahokia/St Louis, 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.