Citizen station GW7910GW7910
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.1 mi away/597 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Now. Lincoln Park Beach (historical) is 54° and overcast at 3 AM. The dew point is 49°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the west-northwest at 14 mph, gusting to 26 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 57° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 42° 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 9:58 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 5 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Lincoln Park Beach (historical), Illinois.
Air quality
Index 9, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Chicago (IL), 7 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 33, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.34 in in the last 24 hours, 0.78 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 12 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
Facing ENE 75°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
The 5 instruments nearest Lincoln Park Beach (historical), 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/1.1 mi away/597 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
ChicagoCBBI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.1 mi away/601 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
ChicagoMDW
At an airfield/11.6 mi away/617 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Chicago 6.4 NNEIL-CK-32
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.1 mi away/610 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/5.2 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.