At an airfield/3.5 mi away/413 ft/1 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 9 degrees warmer: a high of 88° after 79° today.
Now. Frank Holten State Recreation Area is 54° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 47°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 79° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 57° 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. Air quality is moderate (index 53): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 88°, and the coolest Thursday, near 82°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:36 PM. The Moon is a waning crescent, 15% lit, and rises at 3:46 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 36 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Frank Holten State Recreation Area, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 53, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, St. Louis (Metro-east) (IL), 8 miles off.
Highest moderate, Wed Oct 7, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 43, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Wed 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Mon 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Wed 7 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Frank Holten State Recreation Area, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/3.5 mi away/413 ft/1 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
- 55/64/70 @ Poplar St. BridgeSS0234
Beside a road/3.6 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station KC9UAWKC9UAW
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.4 mi away/571 ft/159 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Rain Gage At Scott Air Force Base383209089513901
On a military installation/14.4 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
East St. Louis 1.3 NWIL-SC-36
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.5 mi away/423 ft/11 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Milstadt 2SWMSTI2
At a cooperative observer's station/11.5 mi away/656 ft/244 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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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.