Citizen station DW2227DW2227
In a volunteer observer's own ground/15.1 mi away/612 ft/173 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for Viola until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Viola is 53° and overcast at 1 PM. The dew point is 47°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 14 mph, gusting to 27 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 47° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° 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 57°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:20 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:13 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 1:00 PM in Viola, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 13, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 PM from its reporting area, Rock Island-Moline (IL), 13 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 19, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 AM.
Precipitation
0.16 in in the last 24 hours, 0.36 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 7 AM, lowest 8 miles Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Viola, IllinoisReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Viola, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
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Citizen station DW2227DW2227
In a volunteer observer's own ground/15.1 mi away/612 ft/173 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
MolineMLI
At an airfield/17.4 mi away/594 ft/191 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
- 74 @ Lincoln Road (Galesburg)SS0626
Beside a road/20.7 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Mississippi River AT Rock Island LD15RCKI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/21.6 mi away/552 ft/233 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Viola 0.4 EIL-MR-10
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/791 ft/6 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
AledoALEI2
At a cooperative observer's station/8.6 mi away/709 ft/76 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 17.4 mi from Viola, Illinois. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:12 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 2,700 ft, overcast at 3,500 ft; the ceiling is 3,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
54.0 F with a dew point of 45.0 F, 71 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,100 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,700 ft.
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 13 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 46 mph.
The full report of Moline, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Aledo (ALEI2), 8.6 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 07:45. 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.