Dupage Airport, Illinois

Medium airport in DuPage County, Illinois

64° 66°/52°

Light rain· Feels like 64°·Moderate breeze 15 mph WSW

Coming up. Tomorrow is 11 degrees cooler: a high of 55° after 66° today.

Now. Dupage Airport is 64° and light rain at 9 PM. The dew point is 62°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Moderate breeze from the west-southwest at 15 mph, gusting to 31 mph.

Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 46° by 6 AM, under cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.

The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph. Frost is possible Saturday morning, a low of 34°.

The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The Orionids meteor shower is active, peaking around Oct 21: at its peak, up to about 20 meteors an hour can be seen from a dark site. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 11 hours 8 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.

0UV Low

29Air quality

94%Humidity

100%Cloud

Now

9:00 PM

64feels64

19%

15mph

Today

Oct 15

6652

100%

16mph

Fri

Oct 16

5545

17%

21mph

Sat

Oct 17

5634

Sun

Oct 18

6237

14mph

Mon

Oct 19

6739

Tue

Oct 20

6942

Wed

Oct 21

7145

64°

66°52°

55°45°

56°34°

62°37°

67°39°

69°42°

71°45°

As of 9:00 PM in Dupage Airport, Illinois.

Air quality

The air at Dupage Airport

Index 29, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Aurora and Elgin (IL), 11 miles off.

29Good

Fine particles (PM2.5)29Good10.8 mi
Ozone9Good9 ppb11.3 mi

The days ahead

Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 28, good.

GoodModerate

28YesterdayOct 14
GoodTodayOct 15
GoodFriOct 16
GoodSatOct 17
GoodSunOct 18
GoodMonOct 19

Smoke, the next 41 hours

No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.

Precipitation

What has fallen at Dupage Airport

0.67 in in the last 24 hours, 1.00 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.

Last 24 hours: 0.67in
Last 3 days: 1.00in

3 days agoLast 24 hours 67%

Visibility

How far you can see at Dupage Airport, the next 41 hours

Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 8 miles Thu 9 PM.

Airfield

Code: DPA
ICAO: KDPA
IATA: DPA
Field elevation: 759 ft
Serves: Chicago/West Chicago
Kind: Medium airport
Scheduled service: No
Its own instrument: DPA
Wind now: From 280° at 17 mph, read 15 Oct, 21:28

Runways

Runway	Length	Width	Surface	Heading, true	Wind along it now	Crosswind now
02L / 20R	7,571 ft	150 ft	Concrete	14° / 194°	1 mph head, on 20R	17 mph from the right
02R / 20L	6,451 ft	100 ft	Concrete	14° / 194°	1 mph head, on 20L	17 mph from the right
10 / 28	4,750 ft	75 ft	Asphalt	96° / 276°	17 mph head, on 28	1 mph from the right
15 / 33	3,399 ft	100 ft	Asphalt	148° / 328°	11 mph head, on 33	13 mph from the left

Runways from their surveyed ends, north up, lengths and positions to scale; the rose in the corner is the wind now.

What is measuring near here

The 6 instruments nearest Dupage Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.0 miles away.

measured now4 instruments

Chicago/DupageDPA

At an airfield/0.0 mi away/758 ft/1 ft below here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

Elmhurst QuarryEMQI2

At a river or reservoir gauge/14.6 mi away/676 ft/83 ft below here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

US-34 @ Fox River BridgeSS1924

Beside a road/16.4 mi away/-/- ft from here

temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip

Shabbona 5 NNE54811

At a climate reference station/31.3 mi away/861 ft/102 ft above here