WinnetkaWNKI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.4 mi away/624 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Tower Road Beach, Illinois
Beach in Cook County, Illinois60°
56°/47°
Overcast·
Feels like 60°·Gentle breeze 9 mph WNW
Now. Tower Road Beach is 60° and overcast at 12 AM. The dew point is 54°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 9 mph, gusting to 23 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 48° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 39° by 6 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 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. 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 9:57 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.
0UV Low
21Air quality
86%Humidity
98%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
60feels60
now, overcast
Today
Oct 16
5647
25%
22mph
Sat
Oct 17
5838
12mph
Sun
Oct 18
6141
13mph
Mon
Oct 19
6543
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6746
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
6949
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7152
10%
60°
56°47°
58°38°
61°41°
65°43°
67°46°
69°49°
71°52°
As of 12:00 AM in Tower Road Beach, Illinois.
Air quality
The air at Tower Road Beach
Index 21, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Chicago (IL), 19 miles off.
21Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)21Good3.8 mi
- Ozone7Good7 ppb3.8 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)-3.8 mi
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 Tower Road Beach
0.39 in in the last 24 hours, 1.45 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.39in
- Last 3 days
- 1.45in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 27%
Visibility
How far you can see at Tower Road 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
Facing NE 56°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Beach
- County
- Cook County
- State
- Illinois
- Latitude
- 42.1169° N
- Longitude
- 87.7315° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Tower Road 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 now4 instruments
Citizen station FW1203FW1203
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.5 mi away/628 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
PalwaukeePWK
At an airfield/8.9 mi away/666 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Miller Road BridgeIMC04
Beside a road/30.3 mi away/735 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Winnetka 1.0 NWIL-CK-473
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.2 mi away/627 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Lake Zurich (Hydro)LKZI2
At a cooperative observer's station/17.5 mi away/807 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Illinois
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Tower Road Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Winnetkavillage, 1 mi
- Glencoevillage, 2 mi
- Kenilworthvillage, 2 mi
- Northfieldvillage, 3 mi
- Wilmettevillage, 3 mi
- Glenviewvillage, 5 mi
- Golfvillage, 5 mi
- Evanstoncity, 5 mi
- Skokievillage, 6 mi
- Northbrookvillage, 6 mi
- Highland Parkcity, 6 mi
- Morton Grovevillage, 6 mi
Beaches near Tower Road Beach
- Maple Street Beachunder 1 mi
- Cherry Street Beach1 mi
- Dell Place Beach1 mi
- Elder Lane Beach2 mi
- Glencoe Beach2 mi
- Glencoe Boating Beach2 mi
- Kenilworth Beach2 mi
- Langdon Beach3 mi