Miller Road BridgeIMC04
Beside a road/2.9 mi away/735 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Petersen Park Beach, Illinois
Beach in McHenry County, Illinois57°
56°/45°
Overcast·
Feels like 57°·Gentle breeze 12 mph WNW
Now. Petersen Park Beach is 57° and overcast at 12 AM. The dew point is 53°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 12 mph, gusting to 22 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 47° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 70°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:10 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 4 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
16Air quality
88%Humidity
98%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
57feels57
12mph
Today
Oct 16
5645
19%
21mph
Sat
Oct 17
5735
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6140
13mph
Mon
Oct 19
6441
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6743
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
6947
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7050
12%
57°
56°45°
57°35°
61°40°
64°41°
67°43°
69°47°
70°50°
As of 12:00 AM in Petersen Park Beach, Illinois.
Air quality
The air at Petersen Park Beach
Index 16, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, North and West Suburbs (Chicago) (IL), 11 miles off.
16Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)16Good9.8 mi
- Ozone12Good11 ppb9.8 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)6Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 36, good.
GoodModerate
- 36YesterdayOct 14
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
- GoodMonOct 19
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Petersen Park Beach
0.60 in in the last 24 hours, 0.74 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.60in
- Last 3 days
- 0.74in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 81%
Visibility
How far you can see at Petersen Park Beach, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 12 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Beach
- County
- McHenry County
- State
- Illinois
- Latitude
- 42.3608° N
- Longitude
- 88.2824° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Petersen Park Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Nippersink Creek Above Wonder Lake05548105
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.8 mi away/798 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.0 mi away/790 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
WaukeganUGN
At an airfield/21.8 mi away/709 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
McHenry 0.9 NIL-MCH-100
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/752 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
McHenry Stratton Lock/DamMCHI2
At a dam/3.8 mi away/735 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at McHenry Stratton Lock/Dam (MCHI2), 3.8 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Illinois
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Petersen Park Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- McCullom Lakevillage, 1 mi
- McHenrycity, 2 mi
- Ringwoodvillage, 3 mi
- Johnsburgvillage, 3 mi
- Wonder Lakevillage, 5 mi
- Pistakee Highlandscommunity, 5 mi
- Bull Valleyvillage, 5 mi
- Lakemoorvillage, 5 mi
- Holiday Hillsvillage, 5 mi
- Solon Millscommunity, 6 mi
- Greenwoodvillage, 6 mi
- Prairie Grovevillage, 6 mi
Beaches near Petersen Park Beach
- East Beach Parkunder 1 mi
- West Beach Parkunder 1 mi
- Wonder Center Beach4 mi
- Morrison Park Beach5 mi
- Main Beach9 mi
- West Beach10 mi
- Phil's Beach10 mi
- Channel Lake North Beach Park11 mi