Citizen station GW5043GW5043
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.1 mi away/611 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Howard Beach, Illinois
Beach in Cook County, Illinois60°
57°/48°
Light rain·
Feels like 60°·Gentle breeze 9 mph WNW
Now. Howard Beach is 60° and light rain at 12 AM. The dew point is 54°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 9 mph, gusting to 23 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 49° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 40° by 7 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
27Air quality
87%Humidity
98%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
60feels60
now, rain light
Today
Oct 16
5748
30%
23mph
Sat
Oct 17
5840
13mph
Sun
Oct 18
6242
13mph
Mon
Oct 19
6545
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6847
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
6950
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7153
overcast
60°
57°48°
58°40°
62°42°
65°45°
68°47°
69°50°
71°53°
As of 12:00 AM in Howard Beach, Illinois.
Air quality
The air at Howard Beach
Index 27, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Chicago (IL), 12 miles off.
27Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)27Good8.1 mi
- Ozone10Good9 ppb3 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)-11 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 36, good.
GoodModerate
- 36YesterdayOct 14
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
- GoodMonOct 19
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Howard Beach
0.77 in in the last 24 hours, 1.20 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.77in
- Last 3 days
- 1.20in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 64%
Visibility
How far you can see at Howard Beach, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 12 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing E 79°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Beach
- County
- Cook County
- State
- Illinois
- Latitude
- 42.0186° N
- Longitude
- 87.6639° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Howard Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Rain Gage At Oakton College At Skokie420119087445101
On a college campus/4.3 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
PalwaukeePWK
At an airfield/14.2 mi away/666 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Rakow @ Pyott RdIMC03
Beside a road/36.0 mi away/895 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Evanston 2.9 SSEIL-CK-423
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.6 mi away/592 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/11.6 mi away/584 ft/- ft from 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 Howard Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Evanstoncity, 2 mi
- Lincolnwoodvillage, 4 mi
- Skokievillage, 4 mi
- Wilmettevillage, 5 mi
- Kenilworthvillage, 5 mi
- Morton Grovevillage, 6 mi
- Golfvillage, 7 mi
- Winnetkavillage, 7 mi
- Nilesvillage, 8 mi
- Northfieldvillage, 8 mi
- Harwood Heightsvillage, 8 mi
- Glenviewvillage, 9 mi
Beaches near Howard Beach
- Fargo Beachunder 1 mi
- Juneway Terrace Beach Parkunder 1 mi
- Rogers Beachunder 1 mi
- Marion Mahoney Griffin Beachunder 1 mi
- Marion Mahony Griffin Beach Parkunder 1 mi
- Sherwin Beachunder 1 mi
- Juneway Beachunder 1 mi
- Leone Beachunder 1 mi