I-70 @ IL-140SS0493
Beside a road/11.8 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Now. Vernon is 53° and overcast at 4 AM. The dew point is 49°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 17 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 57° by 12 PM. Tonight falls to about 38° 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 79°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 61°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:17 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:16 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 12 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in Vernon, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, St. Louis (Metro-east) (IL), 50 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 39, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.31 in in the last 24 hours, 1.25 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Vernon, IllinoisReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Vernon, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 8.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
I-70 @ IL-140SS0493
Beside a road/11.8 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/13.0 mi away/574 ft/54 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW0190FW0190
In a volunteer observer's own ground/31.7 mi away/561 ft/41 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
FloraFOAI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/34.3 mi away/490 ft/30 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Mulberry Grove 5.7 SSEIL-FY-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.2 mi away/552 ft/32 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
VandaliaVNDI2
At a cooperative observer's station/11.3 mi away/525 ft/5 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 13.0 mi from Vernon, Illinois. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:15 AM local time: 3 of its 5 sheets.
Overcast at 2,400 ft; the ceiling is 2,400 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
56.5 F with a dew point of 49.5 F, 77 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 2,400 ft.
At 574 ft above sea level, 2 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 29.31 inHg and the temperature at 57.0 F; the station's altimeter setting of 30.08 inHg means its barometer reads 29.46 inHg; it reports 56.5 F, 0.5 F colder than standard.
The full report of Salem/Leckrone, in 5 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.