ChicagoCHJI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.4 mi away/597 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 10 degrees cooler: a high of 57° after 67° today.
Now. Rainbow Park Beach is 67° and overcast at 10 PM. The dew point is 65°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Gentle breeze from the west-southwest at 11 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 49° by 7 AM, under cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 70°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. Rain is possible tomorrow (44%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 24 mph.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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 8 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Rainbow Park Beach, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 37, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Chicago (IL), 9 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 36, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.67 in in the last 24 hours, 1.30 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Thu 10 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
Facing NNE 15°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
The 5 instruments nearest Rainbow Park 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 now3 instruments
ChicagoCHJI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.4 mi away/597 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
ChicagoMDW
At an airfield/10.6 mi away/617 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW2066GW2066
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.9 mi away/598 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Evergreen Park 5.6 ENE (GCI)IL-CK-452
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.6 mi away/610 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/7.3 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.