ChicagoCHJI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.2 mi away/597 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
South Shore Beach, Illinois
Beach in Cook County, Illinois55°
57°/48°
Overcast·
Feels like 55°·Moderate breeze 14 mph NNW
Now. South Shore Beach is 55° and overcast at 1 PM. The dew point is 46°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 14 mph, gusting to 29 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 52° 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 71°, 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 6 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
3UV Moderate
26Air quality
74%Humidity
94%Cloud
Now
1:00 PM
55feels55
12%
14mph
Today
Oct 16
5748
51%
24mph
Sat
Oct 17
5942
19%
16mph
Sun
Oct 18
6342
13mph
Mon
Oct 19
6544
clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6847
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
6950
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7151
overcast
55°
57°48°
59°42°
63°42°
65°44°
68°47°
69°50°
71°51°
As of 1:00 PM in South Shore Beach, Illinois.
Air quality
The air at South Shore Beach
Index 26, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 PM from its reporting area, Chicago (IL), 8 miles off.
26Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)26Good5.8 mi
- Ozone16Good15 ppb1.2 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)-17.3 mi
- Nitrogen dioxide11Good12.3 ppb17.3 mi
- Sulfur dioxide0Good0.6 ppb9.7 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 33, good.
GoodModerate
- 33YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
- GoodMonOct 19
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at South Shore Beach
0.67 in in the last 24 hours, 1.35 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 11 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.67in
- Last 3 days
- 1.35in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 50%
Visibility
How far you can see at South Shore Beach, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sun 7 AM, lowest 7 miles Sat 2 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing NE 56°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Beach
- County
- Cook County
- State
- Illinois
- Latitude
- 41.7689° N
- Longitude
- 87.5626° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest South Shore Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.2 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
ChicagoMDW
At an airfield/9.8 mi away/617 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW2066GW2066
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.0 mi away/598 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Evergreen Park 5.6 ENE (GCI)IL-CK-441
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.3 mi away/584 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/6.5 mi away/584 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Illinois
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near South Shore Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Evergreen Parkvillage, 8 mi
- Chicagocity, 8 mi
- Calumet Parkvillage, 9 mi
- Hometowncity, 9 mi
- Burnhamvillage, 9 mi
- Merrionette Parkvillage, 9 mi
- Blue Islandcity, 10 mi
- Riverdalevillage, 10 mi
- Doltonvillage, 10 mi
- Calumet Citycity, 11 mi
- Oak Lawnvillage, 11 mi
- Alsipvillage, 11 mi
Beaches near South Shore Beach
- Sixty-seventh Street Beachunder 1 mi
- Arthur Ashe Beachunder 1 mi
- Rainbow Park Beachunder 1 mi
- Jackson Park Beach1 mi
- Fiftyninth Street Beach2 mi
- Fifty-Seventh Street Beach2 mi
- Forty-Ninth Street Beach3 mi
- Calumet Park Beach4 mi