Citizen station CW4477CW4477
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.8 mi away/600 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Gale Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Gale Warning is in force for Granville Avenue Beach until 1 AM tomorrow. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Granville Avenue Beach is 53° and overcast at 10 AM. The dew point is 44°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 10 mph, gusting to 26 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 55° by 12 PM. Tonight falls to about 41° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. 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 9:57 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 5 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 AM in Granville Avenue Beach, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 22, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 AM from its reporting area, Chicago (IL), 11 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 33, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 AM.
Precipitation
0.81 in in the last 24 hours, 1.05 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 9 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sun 7 AM, lowest 6 miles Fri 12 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
Facing E 90°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
The 6 instruments nearest Granville Avenue Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station CW4477CW4477
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.8 mi away/600 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Rain Gage At Lake View415657087382101
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.3 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/14.4 mi away/673 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Rakow @ Pyott RdIMC03
Beside a road/37.1 mi away/895 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Chicago 8.0 NIL-CK-341
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.1 mi away/586 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/9.9 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.