Midewin Tallgrass PrairieWMGI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.1 mi away/561 ft/75 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Now. Symerton is 52° and overcast at 4 AM. The dew point is 47°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 11 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 56° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° by 6 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. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:10 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:02 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 4:00 AM in Symerton, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 10, good, led by ozone. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Joliet and Will County (IL), 6 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 28, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.23 in in the last 24 hours, 0.83 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 10 miles Fri 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Symerton, IllinoisReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Symerton, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Midewin Tallgrass PrairieWMGI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.1 mi away/561 ft/75 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW5503GW5503
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.8 mi away/600 ft/36 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
JolietJOT
At an airfield/14.5 mi away/581 ft/55 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
I-57 ChebanseSS1922
Beside a road/24.0 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Wilmington 5.6 EIL-WL-199
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.0 mi away/673 ft/37 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Manhattan 5NEMATI2
At a cooperative observer's station/11.7 mi away/745 ft/109 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 14.5 mi from Symerton, Illinois. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 3,000 ft; the ceiling is 3,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
54.5 F with a dew point of 47.7 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 3,000 ft.
From the west northwest (290 degrees) at 8 mph, gusting 17 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 25 mph.
The full report of Joliet, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Manhattan 5NE (MATI2), 11.7 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. 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.