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Fiftyninth Street Beach, Illinois

Beach in Cook County, Illinois

Air quality

The air at Fiftyninth Street Beach

Index 37, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Chicago (IL), 6 miles off.

37Good
  • Fine particles (PM2.5)37Good-
  • Ozone8Good-

The days ahead

Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 36, good.

Smoke, the next 46 hours

No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.

FriSat

Precipitation

What has fallen at Fiftyninth Street Beach

0.63 in in the last 24 hours, 1.20 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.

Last 24 hours
0.63in
Last 3 days
1.20in

Visibility

How far you can see at Fiftyninth Street Beach, the next 46 hours

Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Thu 10 PM.

FriSat
Fiftyninth Street Beach from its sand, nowLooking E from the sand at 10:43 PM, night, overcast, waves about 1.0 ft every 5 s.80E100110Facing E 96°Wind 12 mphfrom WSW, offshore
Looking E from the sand at 10:43 PM, night, overcast, waves about 1.0 ft every 5 s.
NESW

Facing E 96°

300 ft

From above: the edge, the break, the view

Beach

County
Cook County
State
Illinois
Latitude
41.7895° N
Longitude
87.5781° W

What is measuring near here

The 5 instruments nearest Fiftyninth Street Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.9 miles away.

measured now3 instruments

ChicagoCHJI2

At a river or reservoir gauge/2.8 mi away/597 ft/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

Citizen station GW2066GW2066

In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.4 mi away/598 ft/- ft from here

temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure

ChicagoMDW

At an airfield/9.0 mi away/617 ft/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

measured daily2 instruments

Chicago 6.3 SSEIL-CK-174

In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.9 mi away/590 ft/- ft from here

precip, snowfall, snow depth

Chicago Northerly IslandCNII2

At a cooperative observer's station/4.9 mi away/584 ft/- ft from here

snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low

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Snow on the ground

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