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Edwardsville, IL Weather Forecast

Madison County, Illinois

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Conditions now · Thu, 2:35 AM CDT
65°FDewpoint 48°FMostly sunny

Measured at KALN · Alton/St Louis Rgnl, IL · airport · 7.2 mi away · 15 minutes ago

Edwardsville, IL at Thu, 2:35 AM CDT: 65°F and mostly sunny, measured at KALN (Alton/St Louis Rgnl, IL) 7.2 mi away, 15 minutes ago. Rest of today: high 81°F, low 55°F, 9% 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 morning

It is 60° with a dew point of 46°, which is dry for this time of year. The sky is mostly sunny.

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

Hour by hour
2 AMMostly sunny57°F0%
3 AMMostly sunny57°F0%
4 AMMostly sunny56°F0%
5 AMMostly sunny56°F0%
6 AMClear55°F0%
7 AMClear55°F0%
8 AMClear56°F0%
9 AMClear62°F1%
10 AMClear67°F1%
11 AMClear72°F1%
12 PMClear76°F1%
1 PMClear78°F1%

Next 36 hours

One wet spell, dry either side of it

There is one wet stretch in the window, near 11 AM. Total accumulation over the window comes to about 0.13 in.

It tapers off after noon. Pressure rises 0.03 inHg behind it, which is the drier air arriving. The overnight low settles near 55°. Tomorrow tops out near 78°.

Seven-day outlook

42–81°F across the week
TodayOct 29Mostly sunny · 9% chance of rain55°F / 81°F
FriOct 30Scattered rain · 27% chance of rain57°F / 78°F
SatOct 31Mostly cloudy · 8% chance of rain58°F / 72°F
SunNov 1Scattered rain · 32% chance of rain57°F / 73°F
MonNov 2Scattered rain · 38% chance of rain58°F / 72°F
TueNov 3Rain likely · 56% chance of rain60°F / 72°F
WedNov 4Scattered rain · 44% chance of rain55°F / 69°F
ThuNov 5Scattered rain · 25% chance of rain51°F / 66°F
FriNov 6Partly cloudy · 14% chance of rain46°F / 61°F
SatNov 7Partly cloudy · 8% chance of rain42°F / 61°F
SunNov 8Partly cloudy · 8% chance of rain43°F / 63°F

The week runs between 55° and 81°, with today the warmest day of it. There is no real trend across it: one day looks much like the next. Tuesday is the wettest day, peaking near 56%.

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 Edwardsville forecast

Edwardsville sits at 38.7908°N, 89.9886°W in Madison 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
Madison County
Coordinates
38.7908°N, 89.9886°W
Population
26,698 · 2023 estimate
Land area
19.981 sq mi

Place data from the US Census Bureau. Coordinates are the Census internal point for Edwardsville, 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 Edwardsville?

The nearest Doppler radar is KLSX (St. Louis, MO), 38 miles to the W. 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 Edwardsville its center is about 2,500 ft above ground. That is comfortably inside the useful range. The lowest scan passes low enough over Edwardsville to show rotation in the part of a storm where tornadoes actually form. Edwardsville is closer to its radar than 59% of US cities.

The closest instrument actually measuring the air is KALN · Alton/St Louis Rgnl on the ASOS/AWOS network, 7.2 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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