Illinois River AT Starved RockSRDI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.9 mi away/558 ft/91 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Now. Buffalo Rock State Park is 53° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 45°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the east-southeast at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 75° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 56° 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 Sunday, near 81°, and the coolest Thursday, near 71°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:29 PM. The Moon is a waning crescent, 15% lit, and rises at 3:37 AM after midnight. The next new Moon is Saturday, Oct 10. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 33 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Buffalo Rock State Park, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 32, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Joliet and Will County (IL), 40 miles off.
Good each day through Wed Oct 7, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 35, good.
No smoke near the ground through Wed 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Mon 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Wed 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Wed 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 7 instruments nearest Buffalo Rock State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Illinois River AT Starved RockSRDI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.9 mi away/558 ft/91 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
- 39 MP 81 Lee CountySS1841
Beside a road/8.3 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
PeruVYS
At an airfield/12.9 mi away/653 ft/186 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW9987DW9987
In a volunteer observer's own ground/32.2 mi away/653 ft/186 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Shabbona 5 NNE54811
At a climate reference station/35.3 mi away/861 ft/394 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Ottawa 4SWOTTI2
At a cooperative observer's station/0.3 mi away/545 ft/78 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Ottawa 1.4 WSWIL-LS-69
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.4 mi away/483 ft/16 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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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.