Illinois River near Gore07198000
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.4 mi away/468 ft/209 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Now. Sour John is 56° and overcast at 3 AM. The dew point is 50°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 16 mph, gusting to 30 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 60° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 40° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 85°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 65°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:44 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:52 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 17 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Sour John, Oklahoma.
Air quality
Index 15, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Stilwell (OK), 29 miles off.
Yesterday measured 30, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.19 in in the last 24 hours, 1.20 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 7 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Sour John, OklahomaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Sour John, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Illinois River near Gore07198000
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.4 mi away/468 ft/209 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
I-40 & WarnerI40ST278
Beside a road/12.9 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/13.1 mi away/610 ft/67 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW9813DW9813
In a volunteer observer's own ground/14.0 mi away/545 ft/132 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily1 instrument
Muskogee 1.3 SOK-MK-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/14.9 mi away/561 ft/116 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 13.1 mi from Sour John, Oklahoma. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 10,000 ft; the ceiling is 10,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
59.0 F with a dew point of 48.0 F, 67 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,500 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 10,000 ft.
From the north (360 degrees) at 21 mph, gusting 36 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 37 mph.
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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.