Temperature
61 F at 10 PM; 65 F at its warmest, 8 PM, and 58 F at its coolest, 4 AM.
- Now
- 61F
- 10 PM
- Highest
- 65F
- 8 PM
- Lowest
- 58F
- 4 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Chicago Executive Airport, Illinois
Medium airport in Cook County, Illinois62°
65°/53°
Overcast·
Feels like 62°·Gentle breeze 13 mph W
Coming up. Tomorrow is 9 degrees cooler: a high of 56° after 65° today.
Now. Chicago Executive Airport is 62° and overcast at 11 PM. The dew point is 57°, so the air feels a little humid. Gentle breeze from the west at 13 mph, gusting to 23 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 47° by 6 AM, under cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 69°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 mph.
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 south. 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 7 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
14Air quality
90%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
62feels62
13%
13mph
Today
Oct 15
6553
99%
13mph
Fri
Oct 16
5646
25%
22mph
Sat
Oct 17
5837
12mph
Sun
Oct 18
6241
13mph
Mon
Oct 19
6542
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6845
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
6948
overcast
62°
65°53°
56°46°
58°37°
62°41°
65°42°
68°45°
69°48°
As of 11:00 PM in Chicago Executive Airport, Illinois.
Air quality
The air at Chicago Executive Airport
Index 14, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Lake County (IL), 16 miles off.
14Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)14Good3.9 mi
- Ozone9Good8 ppb3.9 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)-5.6 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 25, good.
GoodModerate
- 25YesterdayOct 14
- GoodTodayOct 15
- GoodFriOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
- GoodMonOct 19
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Chicago Executive Airport
0.34 in in the last 24 hours, 1.15 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.34in
- Last 3 days
- 1.15in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 30%
Visibility
How far you can see at Chicago Executive Airport, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 12 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- PWK
- ICAO
- KPWK
- IATA
- PWK
- Field elevation
- 647 ft
- Serves
- Chicago/Prospect Heights/Wheeling
- Kind
- Medium airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- PWK
- Wind now
- From 300° at 13 mph, read 15 Oct, 22:52
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 / 30 | 4,415 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 118° / 298° | 13 mph head, on 30 | None |
| 16 / 34 | 5,001 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 159° / 339° | 10 mph head, on 34 | 8 mph from the left |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Palwaukee (PWK), Chicago Executive Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 58 F, the air 88% saturated; the humidity ran from 75% at 1 AM to 100% at 5 PM.
- Dew point now
- 58F
- 10 PM
- Humidity now
- 88%
- Humidity, range
- 75 to 100%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
13 mph from the west northwest at 10 PM; at its strongest 13 mph, 10 PM, with a gust of 31 mph at 9 PM.
- Now
- 13mph
- from the west northwest
- Strongest
- 13mph
- 10 PM
- Highest gust
- 31mph
- 9 PM
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
29.79 inHg at 10 PM, rising 0.05 inHg over 3 hours; 0.38 inHg lower than a day before.
- Now
- 29.79inHg
- 10 PM
- 3 hours
- +0.05inHg
- rising
- 24 hours
- -0.38inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 3 miles at 12 PM; 10 miles or more now.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 3mi
- 12 PM
- 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 500 ft at 6 PM; a base was reported in 23 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- -
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 500ft
- 6 PM
- Hours with a base reported
- 23
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
Precipitation
0.33 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.21 in, in the hour to 5 PM.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.33in
- Wettest hour
- 0.21in
- 5 PM
- Hours with some
- 10
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Palwaukee: 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 Chicago Executive Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
PalwaukeePWK
At an airfield/0.5 mi away/666 ft/19 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
NorthbrookNBKI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.7 mi away/674 ft/27 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Rakow @ Pyott RdIMC03
Beside a road/22.3 mi away/895 ft/248 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Mount Prospect 3.0 NEIL-CK-42
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.3 mi away/653 ft/6 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Lake Zurich (Hydro)LKZI2
At a cooperative observer's station/9.6 mi away/807 ft/160 ft above 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 Chicago Executive Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Prospect Heightscity, 1 mi
- Wheelingvillage, 2 mi
- Northbrookvillage, 3 mi
- Riverwoodsvillage, 4 mi
- Mount Prospectvillage, 4 mi
- Deerfieldvillage, 4 mi
- Arlington Heightsvillage, 4 mi
- Buffalo Grovevillage, 5 mi
- Glenviewvillage, 5 mi
- Des Plainescity, 5 mi
- Lincolnshirevillage, 6 mi
- Bannockburnvillage, 6 mi
Airports near Chicago Executive Airport
- Chicago O'Hare International AirportORD, 9 mi
- Schaumburg Regional Airport06C, 13 mi
- Waukegan National AirportUGN, 21 mi
- Dupage AirportDPA, 23 mi
- Chicago Midway International AirportMDW, 24 mi
- Lewis University AirportLOT, 36 mi
- Aurora Municipal AirportARR, 38 mi
- DeKalb Taylor Municipal AirportDKB, 43 mi