Temperature
40 F at 6 AM; 55 F at its warmest, 4 PM Friday, and 40 F at its coolest, 4 AM.
- Now
- 40F
- 6 AM
- Highest
- 55F
- 4 PM Friday
- Lowest
- 40F
- 4 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Greater Kankakee Airport, Illinois
Medium airport in Kankakee County, Illinois* WHAT...Low temperatures in the low to mid 30s will result in frost formation. * WHERE...In Illinois, Livingston, Ford, Iroquois, Eastern Will, and Kankakee Counties. In Indiana, Benton, Jasper, Lake IN, Newton, and Porter Counties. * WHEN...From 3 AM CDT to 8 AM CDT Sunday. * IMPACTS...Frost could harm sensitive outdoor vegetation. Sensitive outdoor plants may be killed if left uncovered.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
39°
59°/37°
Overcast·
Feels like 36°·Light breeze 4 mph N
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for Greater Kankakee Airport until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 8 degrees warmer: a high of 67° after 59° today.
Now. Greater Kankakee Airport is 39° and overcast at 6 AM. The dew point is 34°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 59° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 37° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 76°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 67°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:08 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 11:02 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-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. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 4 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
18Air quality
79%Humidity
98%Cloud
Now
6:00 AM
39feels36
now, overcast
Today
Oct 17
5937
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6736
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
7037
clear day
Tue
Oct 20
7340
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7543
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7647
overcast
Fri
Oct 23
7648
overcast
39°
59°37°
67°36°
70°37°
73°40°
75°43°
76°47°
76°48°
As of 6:00 AM in Greater Kankakee Airport, Illinois.
Air quality
The air at Greater Kankakee Airport
Index 18, good, led by ozone. Read at 6 AM from its reporting area, Joliet and Will County (IL), 27 miles off.
18Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)6Good-
- Ozone18Good19 ppb20.6 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 19, good.
GoodModerate
- 19YesterdayOct 16
- GoodTodayOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
- GoodMonOct 19
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Mon 1 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Greater Kankakee Airport
None in the last 24 hours; 0.01 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 5 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.01in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Greater Kankakee Airport, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Mon 1 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- IKK
- ICAO
- KIKK
- IATA
- IKK
- Field elevation
- 630 ft
- Serves
- Kankakee
- Kind
- Medium airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- IKK
- Wind now
- From 30° at 3 mph, read 17 Oct, 06:15
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04 / 22 | 5,981 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 38° / 218° | 3 mph head, on 04 | None |
| 16 / 34 | 4,398 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 161° / 341° | 2 mph head, on 34 | 2 mph from the right |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Kankakee (IKK), Greater Kankakee Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 34 F, the air 78% saturated; the humidity ran from 56% at 5 PM Friday to 80% at 2 PM Friday.
- Dew point now
- 34F
- 6 AM
- Humidity now
- 78%
- Humidity, range
- 56 to 80%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
3 mph from the north northeast at 6 AM; at its strongest 19 mph, 8 AM Friday, with a gust of 30 mph at 8 AM Friday.
- Now
- 3mph
- from the north northeast
- Strongest
- 19mph
- 8 AM Friday
- Highest gust
- 30mph
- 8 AM Friday
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.52 inHg at 6 AM, rising 0.06 inHg over 3 hours; 0.48 inHg higher than a day before.
- Now
- 30.52inHg
- 6 AM
- 3 hours
- +0.06inHg
- rising
- 24 hours
- +0.48inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 7 miles at 1 PM Friday; 10 miles or more now.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 7mi
- 1 PM Friday
- Hours under a mile
- 0
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
Cloud base
The lowest cloud base came down to 1,300 ft at 2 PM Friday; a base was reported in 20 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- 2,600ft
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 1,300ft
- 2 PM Friday
- Hours with a base reported
- 20
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
Precipitation
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Wettest hour
- -
- Hours with some
- 0
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Kankakee: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Greater Kankakee 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 now3 instruments
KankakeeIKK
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/630 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
I-57 ChebanseSS1922
Beside a road/5.9 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Midewin Tallgrass PrairieWMGI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/23.8 mi away/561 ft/69 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Chebanse 3.7 NNEIL-KK-53
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.3 mi away/652 ft/22 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Kankakee WWTPKKEI2
At a water treatment plant/4.9 mi away/600 ft/30 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Illinois
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Greater Kankakee Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Sammons Pointvillage, 2 mi
- Aroma Parkvillage, 2 mi
- Kankakeecity, 3 mi
- Bradleyvillage, 5 mi
- Chebansevillage, 6 mi
- Limestonevillage, 7 mi
- Bourbonnaisvillage, 7 mi
- Sun River Terracevillage, 7 mi
- Irwinvillage, 7 mi
- St. Annevillage, 8 mi
- Papineauvillage, 10 mi
- Cliftonvillage, 10 mi
Airports near Greater Kankakee Airport
- Joliet Regional AirportJOT, 35 mi
- Lansing Municipal AirportIGQ, 36 mi
- Morris Municipal Airport James R. Washburn fieldC09, 39 mi
- Lewis University AirportLOT, 39 mi
- Pontiac Municipal AirportPNT, 42 mi
- Chicago Midway International AirportMDW, 50 mi
- Rantoul National Aviation Center - Frank Elliot fieldTIP, 56 mi
- Aurora Municipal AirportARR, 58 mi