JolietJOLI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.2 mi away/531 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Now. Michigan Beach is 55° and partly cloudy at 4 PM. The dew point is 45°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north at 15 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 37° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:10 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:01 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 6 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 PM in Michigan Beach, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 18, good, led by ozone. Read at 4 PM from its reporting area, Joliet and Will County (IL), 10 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 28, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 PM.
Precipitation
0.65 in in the last 24 hours, 0.68 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 3 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 1 PM, lowest 9 miles Sun 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Michigan Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
JolietJOLI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.2 mi away/531 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station EW4728EW4728
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.1 mi away/637 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
JolietJOT
At an airfield/6.0 mi away/581 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
US-34 @ Fox River BridgeSS1924
Beside a road/19.2 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Ingalls Park 0.5 WIL-WL-24
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.8 mi away/640 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a dam/2.4 mi away/541 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.