Beardstown, IL Weather

Cass County7:22 PM CDT40.02°N, 90.42°WElevation 453 ft

Current conditions

Mostly Clear
64°
Mostly Clear
Feels like 64°
High 74° Thursday·Low 45° tonight
WindCalm
Humidity60%
Dew point50°
Cloud cover11%
UV index0 Low
Sunrise7:19 AM
Sunset6:15 PM

Forecast for this hour (no station report in the last two hours)

Forecast

10-day

  • Wednesday Night

    Mostly clear, with a low around 45. Wind around 0 mph.

  • Thursday

    Sunny, with a high near 74. Wind around 0 mph.

  • Thursday Night

    Clear, with a low around 48. East wind around 1 mph.

National Weather Service forecast updated 1 day ago.

Hourly

Hourly forecast
  1. Now Mostly Clear 64°
  2. 8 PM Partly Cloudy 59°
  3. 9 PM Mostly Clear 56°
  4. 10 PM Mostly Clear 55°
  5. 11 PM Mostly Clear 53°
  6. Thu12 AM Clear 52°
  7. 1 AM Clear 51°
  8. 2 AM Clear 50°
  9. 3 AM Clear 48°
  10. 4 AM Mostly Clear 47°
  11. 5 AM Mostly Clear 46°
  12. 6 AM Sunny 45°
  13. 7 AM Sunny 45°
  14. 8 AM Sunny 49°
  15. 9 AM Sunny 54°
  16. 10 AM Sunny 59°
  17. 11 AM Sunny 64°
  18. 12 PM Sunny 68°
  19. 1 PM Sunny 71°
  20. 2 PM Sunny 74°
  21. 3 PM Sunny 74°
  22. 4 PM Sunny 74°
  23. 5 PM Sunny 72°
  24. 6 PM Clear 69°

10-day forecast

Details
  1. TueOct 20 Sunny Sunny44°72°
  2. TodayOct 21 Sunny Sunny45°73°
  3. ThuOct 22 Sunny Sunny48°74°
  4. FriOct 23 Sunny Sunny48°74°
  5. SatOct 24 Mostly Sunny Mostly Sunny51°74°
  6. SunOct 25 Partly Sunny Partly Sunny49°75°
  7. MonOct 26 Partly Sunny Partly Sunny15%46°71°
  8. TueOct 27 Rain Rain0.15 in49°57°
  9. WedOct 28 Partly cloudy Partly cloudy39°55°
  10. ThuOct 29 Sunny Sunny35°56°

Days after the National Weather Service's seven are MET Norway's outlook, a computer model with no forecaster's review.

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Air quality

44
Good
Ozone

Air quality is satisfactory, and air pollution poses little or no risk.

Forecast

  • WedModerate
  • ThuModerate
  • FriModerate

Springfield, IL reporting area · 1 hr ago. Data from AirNow (EPA and its state, local and tribal partners); preliminary and subject to change.

Sun & moon

Sunrise 7:19 AM
Sunset 6:15 PM
Daylight 10 h 55 min (−2 min 28 s tomorrow)
Waxing Gibbous · 81% lit
Moonrise 3:54 PM Moonset 2:22 AM
Full moon Oct 26 New moon Nov 9

Nearby

Forecasters' discussion

From the National Weather Service office in ILX, issued 7 hrs ago

Key Messages

- Sunny mild days and cool nights persist across central and southeast Illinois through Sunday, with highs in the mid- upper 70s and lows in the 40s.

- A cold front moves across the region early next week, bringing prospects for light rain, followed by cooler temperatures.

Discussion

Issued at 1211 PM CDT Wed Oct 21 2026

Surface ridge axis centered across the area provides quiet, clear conditions across central and southeast Illinois. Dry air and subsidence will continue to produce mainly clear skies and large diurnal temperature swings over the next several days.

Mid-level heights build across the Mississippi Valley Friday and this weekend as the surface high slips farther east. Models show strong consensus on establishing persistent southerly return flow. 850-hPa temperatures in the lower teens C, along with deeper mixing support afternoon highs around 80F on Sunday, around 15 degrees above climatological averages.

Medium-range deterministic solutions (ECMWF, ECMWF-AI, and GFS) and the ensemble suite diverge early next week regarding the progression of an upstream longwave trough and associated surface cold front. The deterministic GFS exhibits a faster frontal transit across central Illinois Monday evening with stronger pre-frontal 850-hPa flow (4050 kt). Conversely, the ECMWF and ECMWF-AI are roughly 6 to 12 hours slower, maintaining a broader frontal structure and tracking the primary boundary through the forecast area Tuesday. GEFS and ECMWF ensemble members favor this slower progression. Latest NBM run has lowered PoPs below mentionable levels, but this will likely change as the system develops. Behind the front, a shot of cooler air will move in, returning temperatures to more seasonable levels Tue-Wed.

Aviation

Issued at 1211 PM CDT Wed Oct 21 2026

Another cycle of VFR conditions and light/variable winds with high pressure in control.

Ilx Watches

None.

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