At an airfield/9.8 mi away/427 ft/34 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Now. Vergennes is 56° and mostly cloudy at 5 PM. The dew point is 43°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 15 mph, gusting to 37 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 42° 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 60°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:19 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:20 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 13 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 5:00 PM in Vergennes, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 5 PM from its reporting area, Farrar (MO), 24 miles off.
Yesterday measured 26, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 PM.
Precipitation
0.85 in in the last 24 hours, 1.40 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 4 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 1 PM, lowest 10 miles Sat 12 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Vergennes, IllinoisReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Vergennes, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.7 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/9.8 mi away/427 ft/34 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station CW5752CW5752
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.0 mi away/394 ft/1 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Crab Orchard Fire WeatherCOWI2
On a farm or research station/24.0 mi away/433 ft/40 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Murphysboro 2.8 NNEIL-JK-19
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.7 mi away/400 ft/7 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Du QuoinDUQI2
At a cooperative observer's station/8.3 mi away/443 ft/50 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 9.8 mi from Vergennes, Illinois. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:52 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 3,400 ft, broken at 7,000 ft, broken at 10,000 ft; the ceiling is 7,000 ft; visibility 6 mi.
55.0 F with a dew point of 43.0 F, 64 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,700 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 3,400 ft.
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 23 mph, gusting 37 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 38 mph.
The full report of Carbondale/Murph, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Du Quoin (DUQI2), 8.3 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 22:00. 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.