HarrisburgHSB
At an airfield/8.2 mi away/397 ft/11 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Sahara Woods State Recreation Area, Illinois
State Recreation Area in Saline County, Illinois52°
77°/47°
Clear·
Feels like 52°·Calm 1 mph ENE
Coming up. Tomorrow is 8 degrees warmer: a high of 85° after 77° today.
Now. Sahara Woods State Recreation Area is 52° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 47°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 76° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 50° 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 85°, and the coolest Sunday, near 78°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:30 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 37 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
31Air quality
97%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
52feels52
now, clear
Today
Oct 6
7747
UV 6
Wed
Oct 7
8549
UV 6
Thu
Oct 8
8256
UV 6
Fri
Oct 9
8052
overcast
Sat
Oct 10
8254
10%
Sun
Oct 11
7858
27%
Mon
Oct 12
8358
overcast
52°
77°47°
85°49°
82°56°
80°52°
82°54°
78°58°
83°58°
As of 1:00 AM in Sahara Woods State Recreation Area, Illinois.
Air quality
The air at Sahara Woods State Recreation Area
Index 31, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Paducah (KY), 47 miles off.
31Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)20Good-
- Ozone31Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 19, good.
GoodModerate
- 19YesterdayOct 5
Smoke, the next 43 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Wed 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Sahara Woods State Recreation Area
None in the last 3 days, to Tue 12 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 Sahara Woods State Recreation Area, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Wed 7 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Recreation Area
- Area
- 6.28 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 386 ft
- County
- Saline County
- State
- Illinois
- Latitude
- 37.7259° N
- Longitude
- 88.6551° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Sahara Woods State Recreation Area, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.4 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Crab Orchard Fire WeatherCOWI2
On a farm or research station/19.3 mi away/433 ft/47 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW7109FW7109
In a volunteer observer's own ground/22.2 mi away/460 ft/74 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
HarrisburgHSBI2
At a cooperative observer's station/7.4 mi away/364 ft/22 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Harrisburg 3.5 NNEIL-SL-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.3 mi away/395 ft/9 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Illinois
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Sahara Woods State Recreation Area
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Carrier Millsvillage, 3 mi
- Harrisburgcity, 6 mi
- Muddyvillage, 8 mi
- Stonefortvillage, 8 mi
- Crab Orchardcommunity, 8 mi
- Galatiavillage, 8 mi
- Raleighvillage, 10 mi
- Pittsburgvillage, 11 mi
- New Burnsidevillage, 12 mi
- Creal Springscity, 12 mi
- Eldoradocity, 13 mi
- Thompsonvillevillage, 14 mi