I-70 @ IL-140SS0493
Beside a road/18.6 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Coming up. Tomorrow is 9 degrees warmer: a high of 86° after 77° today.
Now. Ramsey Lake State Recreation Area is 53° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 40°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the east-southeast at 1 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 77° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 54° by 5 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 86°, and the coolest Thursday, near 79°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:32 PM. The Moon is a waning crescent, 15% lit, and rises at 3:41 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 1:00 AM in Ramsey Lake State Recreation Area, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 28, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Decatur (IL), 48 miles off.
Good each day through Wed Oct 7, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 23, 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 Tue 12 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 5 instruments nearest Ramsey Lake State Recreation Area, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 8.6 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
I-70 @ IL-140SS0493
Beside a road/18.6 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW6177GW6177
In a volunteer observer's own ground/25.4 mi away/648 ft/12 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
TaylorvilleTAZ
At an airfield/26.2 mi away/623 ft/37 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Witt 3.5 SEIL-MY-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.6 mi away/702 ft/42 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
PanaPNAI2
At a cooperative observer's station/14.8 mi away/640 ft/20 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Pana (PNAI2), 14.8 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.