Citizen station GW7910GW7910
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.2 mi away/597 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Now. North Avenue Beach is 59° and light rain at 1 AM. The dew point is 53°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west at 11 mph, gusting to 25 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 51° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 43° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 70°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. 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 1:00 AM in North Avenue Beach, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 14, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Chicago (IL), 6 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 34, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.33 in in the last 24 hours, 0.62 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 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 65°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
The 5 instruments nearest North Avenue Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.9 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Citizen station GW7910GW7910
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.2 mi away/597 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
ChicagoCBBI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.3 mi away/601 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
ChicagoMDW
At an airfield/11.0 mi away/617 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Chicago 2.2 NNWIL-CK-369
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.9 mi away/595 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/4.1 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.