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Chillicothe, IL Weather Forecast

Peoria County, Illinois

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Conditions now · Thu, 8:15 AM CDT
62°FDewpoint 50°FMostly sunny

Measured at KC75 · Lacon/Marshall Cnty, IL · airport · 9.5 mi away · 16 minutes ago

Chillicothe, IL at Thu, 8:15 AM CDT: 62°F and mostly sunny, measured at KC75 (Lacon/Marshall Cnty, IL) 9.5 mi away, 16 minutes ago. Rest of today: high 70°F, low 52°F, 6% chance of rain. No active National Weather Service alerts for this location.

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What is happeningWritten from the numbers on this page

Dry for the moment, with rain moving in this afternoon

It is 61° with a dew point of 54°, which is comfortable for this time of year. The sky is partly cloudy.

The wind turns to the west-northwest around 11 AM. The first rain arrives between 4 PM and 5 PM. That leaves a usable window outdoors until about 4 PM, and it closes quickly after that.

Hour by hour
8 AMMostly sunny59°F6%
9 AMPartly cloudy62°F2%
10 AMMostly sunny65°F2%
11 AMPartly cloudy67°F1%
12 PMMostly cloudy69°F1%
1 PMMostly cloudy69°F1%
2 PMMostly cloudy70°F0%
3 PMMostly cloudy70°F0%
4 PMMostly sunny69°F0%
5 PMMostly sunny68°F0%
6 PMClear65°F0%
7 PMClear60°F0%

Next 36 hours

One wet spell, dry either side of it

The wet part of the window runs from about 4 PM to 6 PM, 2 hours of it, with the highest chance near 4 PM. Total accumulation over the window comes to about 0.02 in.

It tapers off after 6 PM. Pressure rises 0.03 inHg behind it, which is the drier air arriving. The overnight low settles near 49°. Tomorrow reaches 65°, 5° cooler than today.

Seven-day outlook

42–70°F across the week
TodayOct 29Mostly sunny · 6% chance of rain52°F / 70°F
FriOct 30Scattered rain · 26% chance of rain45°F / 65°F
SatOct 31Rain likely · 64% chance of rain53°F / 66°F
SunNov 1Mostly cloudy · 18% chance of rain53°F / 68°F
MonNov 2Scattered rain · 47% chance of rain56°F / 68°F
TueNov 3Rain likely · 57% chance of rain59°F / 70°F
WedNov 4Scattered rain · 53% chance of rain55°F / 67°F
ThuNov 5Scattered rain · 34% chance of rain50°F / 62°F
FriNov 6Partly cloudy · 19% chance of rain45°F / 58°F
SatNov 7Partly cloudy · 9% chance of rain42°F / 58°F
SunNov 8Partly cloudy · 14% chance of rain42°F / 60°F

The week runs between 45° and 70°, with today the warmest day of it. There is no real trend across it: one day looks much like the next. Saturday is the wettest day, peaking near 64%.

Forecasts come from the National Weather Service's own computer models, and current conditions from the nearest reporting weather station. Both are served through the weather API. A forecast is guidance, not a warning, and anything the Weather Service has actually issued is on the live map.

The written summaries on this page are generated from the forecast data above, not by a meteorologist. Each sentence is a reading of the same numbers you can see, and no forecaster has reviewed them.

About the Chillicothe forecast

Chillicothe sits at 40.9160°N, 89.5027°W in Peoria County, Illinois. The forecast above is drawn for that point from the National Weather Service's own computer models: a seven-day outlook, and a finer-grained one covering the next eighteen hours where it reaches, and the radar and alert panels show what the Weather Service has out over the area right now.

County
Peoria County
Coordinates
40.9160°N, 89.5027°W
Population
5,977 · 2023 estimate
Land area
5.274 sq mi

Place data from the US Census Bureau. Coordinates are the Census internal point for Chillicothe, and the forecast is for that location, not for every address inside the city limits, and a large city can have real weather differences from one side to the other.

How well can the network see Chillicothe?

The nearest Doppler radar is KILX (Lincoln, IL), 54 miles to the S. A WSR-88D's lowest routine scan sits half a degree above horizontal, and the earth curves away beneath it, so by the time that beam reaches Chillicothe its center is about 3,900 ft above ground. That is comfortably inside the useful range. The lowest scan passes low enough over Chillicothe to show rotation in the part of a storm where tornadoes actually form.

The closest instrument actually measuring the air is KC75 · Lacon/Marshall Cnty on the ASOS/AWOS network, 9.5 miles away. Near enough to be representative on most days, though a summer thunderstorm can soak one and miss the other entirely.

Beam height is the standard 4/3-earth approximation for the 0.5° scan and assumes normal refraction; it is where the center of the beam is, not its edges, and unusual temperature profiles bend it. Radar siting from the NWS WSR-88D network, station positions from the Illinois observing network as of this build.

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