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Station and river observations (42)
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Analysis and model context
Current cached context, independently dated. Regional reference: IL; a reference within a wider monitoring area does not replace the complete warning geography. This section remains separate from the historical replay cursor and official cyclone forecast. Use Forecast to pin a retained model package.
Surface: what stations observe and WPC analyses
Illinois: one station shown in each small area of the map, so it stays legible; the table lists every station in a state.
On the map
72Observed temperature, °F, above-left of the station
65Observed dew point, °F, below-left
Observed temperature and dew point are left off the map on a screen this narrow: the table below lists every station’s.
⟋Observed wind: the staff points to where it blows from; a full barb is 10 kt, a half 5, a pennant 50; a ring is calm
Analysis cold front
Analysis warm front
Analysis stationary front
Analysis occluded front
Analysis dry line
Analysis trough
H LAnalysis high and low pressure centres, with their pressure in millibars
WPC’s bulletin does not say which side of a front its symbols go, so this map draws no triangles or half-circles; each front is named on the map and in the list.
Observed 2,073 stations, each at its own time, most between and . Airport and other automated stations’ reports (METARs), as AviationWeather.gov decodes them. Left out: 586 reports flagged by the station for maintenance and no reports that cannot be right; no other quality control is applied here.
Analysis WPC’s surface analysis valid , issued . A forecaster’s analysis of the fronts and pressure centres at that hour, every three hours.
WPC analyses no front across Illinois; troughs are drawn on the map.
Every station in Illinois (42)
42 stations in Illinois, by identifier
Station
Observed
Temperature
Dew point
Wind
Pressure
Visibility
Weather
K06C
44 °F
35 °F
200° 6 kt
—
10+ mi
—
K1H2
38 °F
37 °F
calm
—
10+ mi
—
K3LF
39 °F
35 °F
calm
—
10+ mi
—
KAJG
39 °F
38 °F
calm
—
10+ mi
—
KALN
39 °F
38 °F
calm
—
10+ mi
—
KARR
42 °F
36 °F
200° 5 kt
1030.6 mb
10+ mi
—
KBMI
39 °F
34 °F
190° 5 kt
1031.7 mb
10+ mi
—
KC75
42 °F
33 °F
160° 4 kt
—
10+ mi
—
KCIR
40 °F
40 °F
calm
—
10+ mi
—
KDEC
37 °F
35 °F
calm
1032.3 mb
10+ mi
—
KDKB
42 °F
36 °F
200° 8 kt
—
10+ mi
—
KDPA
42 °F
35 °F
200° 5 kt
1030.9 mb
10+ mi
—
KENL
37 °F
37 °F
calm
—
1.75 mi
BR
KFEP
43 °F
34 °F
200° 10 kt
—
10+ mi
—
KFOA
37 °F
—
calm
—
10+ mi
—
KFWC
39 °F
35 °F
calm
—
10+ mi
—
KGBG
40 °F
35 °F
170° 4 kt
—
10+ mi
—
KHSB
38 °F
37 °F
calm
—
5 mi
BR
KI63
39 °F
32 °F
calm
—
10+ mi
—
KIJX
40 °F
34 °F
150° 5 kt
—
10+ mi
—
KIKK
40 °F
30 °F
200° 3 kt
—
10+ mi
—
KJOT
42 °F
38 °F
calm
—
10+ mi
—
KLOT
41 °F
37 °F
180° 7 kt
—
10+ mi
—
KM30
39 °F
38 °F
calm
—
10+ mi
—
KMDH
38 °F
37 °F
calm
1032.1 mb
10+ mi
—
KMDW
46 °F
32 °F
200° 7 kt
1030.9 mb
10+ mi
—
KMLI
43 °F
32 °F
200° 8 kt
1029.7 mb
10+ mi
—
KMQB
40 °F
34 °F
170° 4 kt
—
10+ mi
—
KMWA
39 °F
39 °F
240° 1 kt
—
10+ mi
—
KOLY
38 °F
36 °F
calm
—
10+ mi
—
KPIA
42 °F
36 °F
calm
1031.2 mb
10+ mi
—
KPNT
37 °F
35 °F
150° 5 kt
—
10+ mi
—
KPPQ
41 °F
35 °F
180° 3 kt
—
10+ mi
—
KPRG
35 °F
31 °F
calm
—
10+ mi
—
KRPJ
36 °F
35 °F
190° 6 kt
—
10+ mi
—
KRSV
36 °F
36 °F
100° 1 kt
—
10+ mi
—
KSAR
40 °F
40 °F
calm
—
10+ mi
—
KSFY
40 °F
33 °F
150° 6 kt
—
10+ mi
—
KSLO
42 °F
40 °F
not given
—
10+ mi
—
KSPI
39 °F
37 °F
140° 3 kt
1031.7 mb
10+ mi
—
KTIP
37 °F
33 °F
calm
—
10+ mi
—
KUGN
44 °F
36 °F
210° 8 kt
1029.3 mb
10+ mi
—
Surface observations checked· Data: NOAA/NWS Aviation Weather Center
WPC surface analysis checked· Data: NOAA/WPC
Spotlight: Winter Storm Severity Index
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Winter Storm Severity Index
WPC: “WSSI does not depict official warnings and should always be used in context with official NWS forecasts and warnings.”
WPC’s WSSI, overall impact, Days 1–3, valid to , issued . WPC issues each day and cause on its own clock. Not a warning, and not a chance. Data: NOAA/NWS/WPC.
Chance of Moderate impacts or worse, Day 1
WPC: “WSSI does not depict official warnings and should always be used in context with official NWS forecasts and warnings.”
WPC’s Probabilistic Winter Precipitation Forecast, to , issued . Outlines, as WPC draws them. Data: NOAA/NWS/WPC.
Winter watches, warnings and advisories
Frost Advisory71 not yet in effect · until · NWS Chicago IL, NWS Indianapolis IN, NWS Lincoln IL, 2 more offices
NWS’s winter and cold alerts in force in the area, by event as issued, each counted once, with the offices that issued them and the latest end. Data: NOAA/NWS.
Snow on the ground
NOHRSC snow depth and snow water equivalent use the source’s original pictures and legends, with qualified footprint times. Open the cached source page for availability and retained history. This wall has no snow picture to rotate; missing imagery does not mean no snow.
NHC’s and JTWC’s storms, their official graphics and the watches and warnings for them. Storm Mode’s own tropical panels arrive with its tropical events.
The Radar page’s winter preset over the area: HRDPS forecast snow with NWS’s warnings on top, loaded by your browser. A forecast, labelled as one there.
Not an official warning service. Warnings and watches are the National Weather Service’s, outlooks and reports the Storm Prediction Center’s and the Weather Prediction Center’s (Data: NOAA/NWS, NOAA/SPC, NOAA/WPC). When a warning is issued for you, act on it, and use weather.gov or a NOAA Weather Radio for where you are.