I-70 @ IL-49 CaseySS1927
Beside a road/14.1 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Now. Yale is 69° and partly cloudy at 12 AM. The dew point is 68°, so the air feels oppressive. Gentle breeze from the west at 10 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 50° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 39° 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 59°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:12 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:10 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 11 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Yale, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 21, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Vincennes (IN), 34 miles off.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.66 in in the last 24 hours, 1.05 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 2 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Yale, IllinoisReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Yale, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
I-70 @ IL-49 CaseySS1927
Beside a road/14.1 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
RobinsonRSV
At an airfield/21.3 mi away/463 ft/93 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW1422FW1422
In a volunteer observer's own ground/22.7 mi away/465 ft/91 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Yale 0.1 SSWIL-JS-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.2 mi away/551 ft/5 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Newton 1WNWTI2
At a cooperative observer's station/12.3 mi away/529 ft/27 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 21.3 mi from Yale, Illinois. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 5,500 ft, broken at 8,000 ft, overcast at 12,000 ft; the ceiling is 8,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
75.2 F with a dew point of 69.8 F, 83 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,300 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 5,500 ft.
From the west southwest (240 degrees) at 15 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 17 mph.
The full report of Robinson, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Newton 1W (NWTI2), 12.3 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 23:59. 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.