LaconC75
At an airfield/17.5 mi away/568 ft/122 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for Wenona until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Wenona is 49° and mostly cloudy at 4 AM. With the wind it feels like 44°. The dew point is 44°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 12 mph, gusting to 25 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 55° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 7 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. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:14 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:07 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in Wenona, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 14, good, led by fine particles. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Peoria (IL), 30 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 25, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.08 in in the last 24 hours, 0.43 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 8 miles Fri 2 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Wenona, IllinoisReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Wenona, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 9.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
LaconC75
At an airfield/17.5 mi away/568 ft/122 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
I-39/Lincoln Bridge (593000)SS0776
Beside a road/17.9 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Starved Rock Met Station Near North Utica411926088585501
At a river or reservoir gauge/19.2 mi away/467 ft/223 ft below here
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Citizen station KB9MXLKB9MXL
In a volunteer observer's own ground/23.9 mi away/772 ft/82 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
MinonkMINI2
At a cooperative observer's station/9.7 mi away/732 ft/42 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Streator 1.3 WSWIL-LS-45
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.3 mi away/621 ft/69 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 17.5 mi from Wenona, Illinois. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 3,700 ft, broken at 4,600 ft, broken at 5,000 ft; the ceiling is 4,600 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
49.5 F with a dew point of 41.4 F, 74 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,800 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 3,700 ft.
From the west northwest (290 degrees) at 7 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 28 mph.
The full report of Lacon, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Minonk (MINI2), 9.7 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.