At an airfield/11.9 mi away/427 ft/64 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Now. Giant City State Park is 50° and clear at 3 AM. The dew point is 48°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 77° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 53° by 5 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 86°, and the coolest Sunday, near 79°. Rain is possible Sunday (30%).
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 37 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Giant City State Park, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 31, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Farrar (MO), 27 miles off.
No smoke near the ground through Wed 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Tue 2 AM. 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 Giant City State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/11.9 mi away/427 ft/64 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.1 mi away/426 ft/65 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Crab Orchard Fire WeatherCOWI2
On a farm or research station/12.3 mi away/433 ft/58 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
146 @ McClureSS0235
Beside a road/27.1 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Carbondale 6.2 SIL-JK-38
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.8 mi away/637 ft/146 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Sewage PlantMDHI2
At a cooperative observer's station/8.5 mi away/384 ft/107 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Sewage Plant (MDHI2), 8.5 miles from here, read 5 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.