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temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Stephen A. Forbes State Recreation Area, Illinois
State Recreation Area in Marion County, Illinois53°
77°/47°
Clear·
Feels like 53°·Light air 1 mph ENE
Coming up. Tomorrow is 10 degrees warmer: a high of 87° after 77° today.
Now. Stephen A. Forbes State Recreation Area is 53° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 45°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the east-northeast at 1 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 76° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 52° 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. 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 87°, and the coolest Thursday, near 81°. 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 3:40 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.
0UV Low
53Air quality
89%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
53feels53
now, clear
Today
Oct 6
7747
UV 6
Wed
Oct 7
8751
clear day
Thu
Oct 8
8155
clear day
Fri
Oct 9
8151
overcast
Sat
Oct 10
8553
overcast
Sun
Oct 11
8158
14%
Mon
Oct 12
8558
overcast
53°
77°47°
87°51°
81°55°
81°51°
85°53°
81°58°
85°58°
As of 12:00 AM in Stephen A. Forbes State Recreation Area, Illinois.
Air quality
The air at Stephen A. Forbes State Recreation Area
Index 53, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, St. Louis (Metro-east) (IL), 66 miles off.
53Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)53Moderate-
- Ozone21Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)22Good-
The days ahead
Highest moderate, Wed Oct 7, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 43, good.
GoodModerate
- 43YesterdayOct 5
- GoodTodayOct 6
- ModerateWedOct 7
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Wed 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Stephen A. Forbes State Recreation Area
None in the last 3 days, to Mon 11 PM. 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 Stephen A. Forbes State Recreation Area, the next 44 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
- 4.86 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 564 ft
- County
- Marion County
- State
- Illinois
- Latitude
- 38.7446° N
- Longitude
- 88.7682° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Stephen A. Forbes State Recreation Area, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 8.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/12.7 mi away/574 ft/10 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
FloraFOAI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/16.6 mi away/490 ft/74 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW0190FW0190
In a volunteer observer's own ground/21.8 mi away/561 ft/3 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
St. Peter 0.2 WNWIL-FY-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.8 mi away/602 ft/38 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
SalemSLOI2
At a cooperative observer's station/12.3 mi away/548 ft/16 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
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