At an airfield/5.2 mi away/472 ft/22 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Now. Whiteash is 53° and overcast at 7 PM. The dew point is 48°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 10 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 54° by 7 PM. 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 now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:19 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 7:00 PM in Whiteash, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 16, good, led by ozone. Read at 6 PM from its reporting area, Farrar (MO), 42 miles off.
Yesterday measured 26, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 PM.
Precipitation
0.07 in in the last 24 hours, 0.84 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 6 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 1 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 12 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Whiteash, IllinoisReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Whiteash, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.3 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/5.2 mi away/472 ft/22 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW7109FW7109
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.8 mi away/460 ft/10 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Crab Orchard Fire WeatherCOWI2
On a farm or research station/8.6 mi away/433 ft/17 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Marion 0.4 SWIL-WM-30
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.3 mi away/443 ft/7 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
West FrankfortWFRI2
At a cooperative observer's station/8.4 mi away/430 ft/20 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 5.2 mi from Whiteash, Illinois. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 6:45 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 5,000 ft, broken at 7,500 ft, overcast at 9,000 ft; the ceiling is 7,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
51.8 F with a dew point of 48.2 F, 87 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 800 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 5,000 ft.
From the north northwest (330 degrees) at 10 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 28 mph.
The full report of Marion Regional, 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.