Parks/Illinois/Dixon Springs State Park

Dixon Springs State Park, Illinois

State Park in Pope County, Illinois

54° 77°/48°

Clear· Feels like 54°·Calm 1 mph ENE

Now. Dixon Springs State Park is 54° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 48°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. The air is calm.

Today and tonight. It warms to about 76° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 49° 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 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.

The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 82°, and the coolest Sunday, near 77°. Rain is possible Sunday (31%).

The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:31 PM. The Moon is a waning crescent, 15% lit, and rises at 3:42 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 38 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.

0UV Low

31Air quality

97%Humidity

0%Cloud

Now

1:00 AM

54feels54

Today

Oct 6

7748

UV 6

Wed

Oct 7

8249

UV 6

Thu

Oct 8

8256

UV 6

Fri

Oct 9

8053

Sat

Oct 10

8254

15%

Sun

Oct 11

7758

31%

Mon

Oct 12

8258

11%

54°

77°48°

82°49°

82°56°

80°53°

82°54°

77°58°

82°58°

As of 1:00 AM in Dixon Springs State Park, Illinois.

Air quality

The air at Dixon Springs State Park

Index 31, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Paducah (KY), 23 miles off.

31Good

Fine particles (PM2.5)20Good-
Ozone31Good27 ppb21.9 mi

The days ahead

Yesterday measured 19, good.

GoodModerate

19YesterdayOct 5

Smoke, the next 43 hours

Little smoke near the ground through Wed 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.

Precipitation

What has fallen at Dixon Springs State Park

None in the last 3 days, to Tue 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.

Last 24 hours: 0.00in
Last 3 days: 0.00in

Visibility

How far you can see at Dixon Springs State Park, the next 43 hours

Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Wed 7 PM.

Park

Designation: State Park
Area: 1.22 sq mi
Height at its point: 518 ft
County: Pope County
State: Illinois
Latitude: 37.3896° N
Longitude: 88.6568° W

What is measuring near here

The 5 instruments nearest Dixon Springs State Park, 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 now3 instruments

Dixon Springs-RAWSDSFI2

A remote fire weather station/3.3 mi away/541 ft/23 ft above here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

Citizen station EW6292EW6292

In a volunteer observer's own ground/21.6 mi away/340 ft/178 ft below here

temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure

HarrisburgHSB

At an airfield/29.7 mi away/397 ft/121 ft below here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

measured daily2 instruments

Simpson 4.7 SEIL-PP-3