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At a river or reservoir gauge/3.5 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Forty-Ninth Street Beach, Illinois
Beach in Cook County, Illinois54°
58°/48°
Overcast·
Feels like 54°·Gentle breeze 12 mph WNW
Now. Forty-Ninth Street Beach is 54° and overcast at 11 AM. The dew point is 44°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 12 mph, gusting to 23 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 56° by 12 PM. Tonight falls to about 44° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 70°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:08 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 9:58 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 6 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
3UV Low
23Air quality
72%Humidity
98%Cloud
Now
11:00 AM
54feels54
12mph
Today
Oct 16
5848
48%
25mph
Sat
Oct 17
5942
17%
16mph
Sun
Oct 18
6243
12mph
Mon
Oct 19
6545
clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6748
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
6851
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7051
overcast
54°
58°48°
59°42°
62°43°
65°45°
67°48°
68°51°
70°51°
As of 11:00 AM in Forty-Ninth Street Beach, Illinois.
Air quality
The air at Forty-Ninth Street Beach
Index 23, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 AM from its reporting area, Chicago (IL), 5 miles off.
23Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)23Good7.4 mi
- Ozone16Good14 ppb4.4 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)-20.3 mi
- Nitrogen dioxide10Good11 ppb20.3 mi
- Sulfur dioxide0Good0.6 ppb12.8 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 33, good.
GoodModerate
- 33YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
- GoodMonOct 19
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Forty-Ninth Street Beach
0.46 in in the last 24 hours, 0.71 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 10 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.46in
- Last 3 days
- 0.71in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 65%
Visibility
How far you can see at Forty-Ninth Street Beach, the next 45 hours
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 2 miles Fri 6 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing ENE 60°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Beach
- County
- Cook County
- State
- Illinois
- Latitude
- 41.8081° N
- Longitude
- 87.5859° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Forty-Ninth Street Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Citizen station GW2066GW2066
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.1 mi away/598 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
ChicagoMDW
At an airfield/8.7 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/1.1 mi away/590 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/3.5 mi away/584 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Illinois
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Forty-Ninth Street Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
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- Forest Viewvillage, 11 mi
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