Citizen station EW9579EW9579
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.0 mi away/740 ft/65 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Now. Rock Cut State Park is 50° and clear at 2 AM. The dew point is 47°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the south-southeast at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 72° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 53° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Sunday, near 78°, and the coolest Thursday, near 67°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:29 PM. The Moon is a waning crescent, 15% lit, and rises at 3:36 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 32 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Rock Cut State Park, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 32, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Rockford (IL), 2 miles off.
Good each day through Wed Oct 7, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 34, good.
No smoke near the ground through Wed 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Tue 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Wed 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Wed 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 7 instruments nearest Rock Cut State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.0 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Citizen station EW9579EW9579
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.0 mi away/740 ft/65 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
RockfordRFD
At an airfield/11.1 mi away/722 ft/83 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Kishwaukee Valley RdIMC02
Beside a road/17.7 mi away/817 ft/12 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
44N7E-17.8h1 (WOOD-08-01)421747088270701
At a river or reservoir gauge/28.6 mi away/943 ft/138 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Shabbona 5 NNE54811
At a climate reference station/35.5 mi away/861 ft/56 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Machesney Park 1.3 SSWIL-WN-42
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.0 mi away/733 ft/72 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Belvidere 1WBELI2
At a cooperative observer's station/9.4 mi away/751 ft/54 ft below 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.