- 55/64/70 @ Poplar St. BridgeSS0234
Beside a road/4.5 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Coming up. Tomorrow is 23 degrees cooler: a high of 58° after 81° today.
Now. Washington Park is 74° and mostly clear at 9 PM. The dew point is 66°, so the air feels oppressive. Gentle breeze from the west at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 49° by 8 AM, with some cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 78°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 35°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 day is 11 hours 14 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Washington Park, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 22, good, led by ozone. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, St. Louis (Metro-east) (IL), 7 miles off.
Highest moderate, today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 39, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
0.56 in in the last 24 hours, 1.70 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 9 miles Thu 11 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Washington Park, IllinoisReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Washington Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
- 55/64/70 @ Poplar St. BridgeSS0234
Beside a road/4.5 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/5.1 mi away/413 ft/11 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station EW4319EW4319
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.9 mi away/567 ft/143 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Rain Gage At Scott Air Force Base383209089513901
On a military installation/14.0 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Fairmont City 0.9 ENEIL-SC-18
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.0 mi away/420 ft/4 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Milstadt 2SWMSTI2
At a cooperative observer's station/12.9 mi away/656 ft/232 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 5.1 mi from Washington Park, Illinois. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 8:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
A few clouds at 8,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
75.0 F with a dew point of 65.0 F, 71 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,300 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 8,500 ft.
At 5 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 17 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.