Des Plaines River Near Gurnee05528000
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.3 mi away/650 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Now. Independence Grove Beach is 62° and overcast at 9 PM. The dew point is 61°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light breeze from the west-southwest at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 48° by 6 AM, with some cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 67°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 23 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. The day is 11 hours 7 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Independence Grove Beach, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 31, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Lake County (IL), 3 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 25, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
0.32 in in the last 24 hours, 0.57 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 8 miles Thu 9 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Independence Grove Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Des Plaines River Near Gurnee05528000
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.3 mi away/650 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW4338FW4338
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.6 mi away/718 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
WaukeganUGN
At an airfield/9.1 mi away/709 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Miller Road BridgeIMC04
Beside a road/15.6 mi away/735 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Green Oaks 1.1 NWIL-LK-64
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.0 mi away/671 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Lake Zurich (Hydro)LKZI2
At a cooperative observer's station/10.1 mi away/807 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.