JolietJOT
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/581 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 13 degrees cooler: a high of 57° after 70° today.
Now. Joliet Regional Airport is 68° and overcast at 9 PM. The dew point is 67°, so the air feels oppressive. Gentle breeze from the west at 10 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 47° by 8 AM, under cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Saturday morning, a low of 36°.
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 9 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Joliet Regional Airport, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 27, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Joliet and Will County (IL), 9 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 50, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
0.61 in in the last 24 hours, 0.70 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 5 miles Fri 12 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04 / 22 unlit | 2,552 ft | 150 ft | Grass | 45° / 225° | 8 mph head, on 22 | 4 mph from the right |
| 13 / 31 | 2,821 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 127° / 307° | 5 mph head, on 31 | 8 mph from the left |
The 5 instruments nearest Joliet Regional 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
JolietJOT
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/581 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
ChannahonCDII2
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.6 mi away/571 ft/11 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
US-34 @ Fox River BridgeSS1924
Beside a road/14.8 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Shorewood 0.3 NIL-WL-122
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.5 mi away/611 ft/29 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Joliet 2N (Hydro)JKJI2
At a cooperative observer's station/3.0 mi away/630 ft/48 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Joliet 2N (Hydro) (JKJI2), 3.0 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.