Southern Illinois, Illinois

Short-term forecast
Issued by the National Weather Service at 5:26 PM CST on December 3, 2008

Showers will continue to increase in coverage and intensity across southeast Missouri...southern Illinois...southwest Indiana and western Kentucky through the early evening hours. Through 7 PM CST...a vast majority of the widespread rainfall will found in an area stretching from Mayfield and Calhoun Kentucky...northward to a Marble Hill Missouri...Fairfield Illinois. A lesser coverage of shower activity can be expected to the north and south of this area. Although individual showers will continue to move quickly northeast around 60 mph...the entire of rainfall will work southeast around 25 mph. Hourly rainfall amounts will range from a trace to one tenth of an inch...with isolated amounts near one quarter inch possible. The leading edge of the cold front will move near New Madrid Missouri...Reidland Kentucky and Boonville Indiana line shortly after 7 PM.


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54° | 25° 36° | 20° 36° | 25° 41° | 22° 38° | 25°

Current conditions
As of 6:20 PM CST
at Carbondale, Illinois

Overcast
Temperature: 45°
Wind chill:37°
Wind: NNW 17 mph
Dewpoint: 41°
Humidity: 87%
Visibility: 10.0 miles
Forecast

As of 3:37 PM CST on December 3, 2008

Tonight...Mostly cloudy. Rain showers likely in the evening. Lows in the mid 20s. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.

Thursday...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.

Thursday Night...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 20s. North winds 5 mph.

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    Regional conditions
LocationConditionsTemp..
De Soto Overcast 45°
Energy Rain 50°
Sparta Light Rain 36°
Raleigh Light Rain 50°
Mount Vernon Mostly Cloudy 39°
Kelso Light Rain 46°
Centralia Light Rain 37°
Metropolis Rain 50°
Mound City Rain 50°
Salem Light Rain 37°

Almanac

Key: T = Trace of precipitation; MM = data not available
December 3, 2008
Normal high:49° Record high:77° (1982)
Normal low:31° Record low:1° (1929)
Sunrise:6:55 AM Moon Rise: 11:12 AM
Sunset:4:38 PM Moon Set: 10:00 PM
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