JacksonvilleIJX
At an airfield/10.2 mi away/623 ft/50 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for Woodson until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Woodson is 53° and overcast at 5 PM. The dew point is 49°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 13 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 54° by 5 PM. Tonight falls to about 35° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 78°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:20 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:18 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 9 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 5:00 PM in Woodson, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 14, good, led by ozone. Read at 5 PM from its reporting area, Springfield (IL), 31 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 29, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 PM.
Precipitation
0.13 in in the last 24 hours, 0.46 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 4 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sun 1 PM, lowest 4 miles Fri 6 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Woodson, IllinoisReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Woodson, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
JacksonvilleIJX
At an airfield/10.2 mi away/623 ft/50 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station EW0975EW0975
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.1 mi away/530 ft/143 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Illinois River AT La Grange LDNLGI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/25.0 mi away/427 ft/246 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
US-67 @ BeardstownSS1908
Beside a road/29.0 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Murrayville 3.3 NNWIL-MG-10
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.0 mi away/651 ft/22 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Jacksonville 2JCKI2
At a cooperative observer's station/5.9 mi away/630 ft/43 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 10.2 mi from Woodson, Illinois. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 5:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 1,500 ft, broken at 6,000 ft, overcast at 7,000 ft; the ceiling is 6,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
49.5 F with a dew point of 49.5 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,500 ft.
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 10 mph, gusting 16 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 29 mph.
The full report of Jacksonville, 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.