Main Beach, Illinois

Beach in McHenry County, Illinois

63° 65°/53°

Overcast· Feels like 63°·Gentle breeze 10 mph WSW

Coming up. Tomorrow is 9 degrees cooler: a high of 56° after 65° today.

Now. Main Beach is 63° and overcast at 9 PM. The dew point is 62°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Gentle breeze from the west-southwest at 10 mph.

Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 47° by 6 AM, with some cloud.

The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 70°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph. Frost is possible Saturday morning, a low of 35°.

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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.

0UV Low

37Air quality

95%Humidity

100%Cloud

Now

9:00 PM

63feels63

23%

Today

Oct 15

6553

99%

15mph

Fri

Oct 16

5646

20%

21mph

Sat

Oct 17

5735

Sun

Oct 18

6239

13mph

Mon

Oct 19

6641

Tue

Oct 20

6944

Wed

Oct 21

7047

63°

65°53°

56°46°

57°35°

62°39°

66°41°

69°44°

70°47°

As of 9:00 PM in Main Beach, Illinois.

Air quality

The air at Main Beach

Index 37, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, North and West Suburbs (Chicago) (IL), 5 miles off.

37Good

Fine particles (PM2.5)37Good5.1 mi
Ozone16Good12 ppb5.1 mi
Coarse particles (PM10)11Good-

The days ahead

Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 36, good.

GoodModerate

36YesterdayOct 14
GoodTodayOct 15
GoodFriOct 16
GoodSatOct 17
GoodSunOct 18
GoodMonOct 19

Smoke, the next 41 hours

No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.

Precipitation

What has fallen at Main Beach

0.39 in in the last 24 hours, 0.95 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.

Last 24 hours: 0.39in
Last 3 days: 0.95in

3 days agoLast 24 hours 41%

Visibility

How far you can see at Main Beach, the next 41 hours

Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 7 miles Thu 9 PM.

Beach

County: McHenry County
State: Illinois
Latitude: 42.2336° N
Longitude: 88.3444° W

What is measuring near here

The 7 instruments nearest Main Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.

measured now5 instruments

Rakow @ Pyott RdIMC03

Beside a road/2.0 mi away/895 ft/- ft from here

temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip

44N7E-17.8h1 (WOOD-08-01)421747088270701

At a river or reservoir gauge/7.0 mi away/943 ft/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

Citizen station EW7151EW7151

In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.2 mi away/750 ft/- ft from here

temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure

Chicago - Schaumburg06C

At an airfield/20.8 mi away/797 ft/- ft from here