Citizen station GW7910GW7910
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.4 mi away/597 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 8 degrees cooler: a high of 58° after 66° today.
Now. Fullerton Beach is 64° and overcast at 9 PM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Gentle breeze from the west-southwest at 8 mph, gusting to 28 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 49° by 7 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 69°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. Rain is possible tomorrow (39%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 24 mph.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% 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 7 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Fullerton Beach, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 42, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Chicago (IL), 7 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 36, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
0.32 in in the last 24 hours, 0.76 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 7 miles Thu 11 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
Facing E 84°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
The 5 instruments nearest Fullerton 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 GW7910GW7910
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.4 mi away/597 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
ChicagoCBBI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.4 mi away/601 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
ChicagoMDW
At an airfield/11.5 mi away/617 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Chicago 2.2 NNWIL-CK-369
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.1 mi away/595 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.