CairoCIR
At an airfield/7.1 mi away/321 ft/21 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Fort Defiance State Park, Illinois
State Park in Alexander County, Illinois52°
80°/50°
Clear·
Feels like 52°·Calm 1 mph ENE
Now. Fort Defiance State Park is 52° and clear at 4 AM. The dew point is 50°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 78° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 53° by 6 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 Thursday, near 85°, and the coolest Sunday, near 79°. Rain is possible Sunday (36%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:33 PM. The Moon is a waning crescent, 15% lit, and rises at 3:44 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
25Air quality
97%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
4:00 AM
52feels52
now, clear
Today
Oct 6
8050
UV 6
Wed
Oct 7
8452
UV 6
Thu
Oct 8
8558
UV 6
Fri
Oct 9
8257
overcast
Sat
Oct 10
8558
overcast
Sun
Oct 11
7961
36%
Mon
Oct 12
8459
overcast
52°
80°50°
84°52°
85°58°
82°57°
85°58°
79°61°
84°59°
As of 4:00 AM in Fort Defiance State Park, Illinois.
Air quality
The air at Fort Defiance State Park
Index 25, good, led by ozone. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Paducah (KY), 32 miles off.
25Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)21Good-
- Ozone25Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 43, good.
GoodModerate
- 43YesterdayOct 5
Smoke, the next 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Thu 1 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Fort Defiance State Park
None in the last 3 days, to Tue 3 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 Fort Defiance State Park, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Thu 1 AM, lowest 9 miles Wed 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 0.2 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 300 ft
- County
- Alexander County
- State
- Illinois
- Latitude
- 36.9832° N
- Longitude
- 89.1417° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Fort Defiance State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Ohio River At Olmsted03612600
At a river or reservoir gauge/14.3 mi away/278 ft/22 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
146 @ McClureSS0235
Beside a road/29.4 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station EW6292EW6292
In a volunteer observer's own ground/30.6 mi away/340 ft/40 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Cairo 0.8 NIL-AL-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.7 mi away/313 ft/13 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Grand Chain Dam 53GCTI2
At a dam/16.0 mi away/384 ft/84 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
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