Northerly IsleNDBC-CNII2
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.6 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Now. Twelfth Street Beach is 45° and mostly clear at 4 AM. With the wind it feels like 41°. The dew point is 31°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 57° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 45° 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 70°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 63°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:06 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 10:58 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 2 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in Twelfth Street Beach, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 24, good, led by ozone. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Chicago (IL), 4 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 25, good.
No smoke near the ground through Mon 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.05 in in the last 24 hours, 0.55 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Mon 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
Facing ENE 62°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
The 5 instruments nearest Twelfth Street Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.6 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Northerly IsleNDBC-CNII2
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.6 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW2066GW2066
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.7 mi away/598 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
ChicagoMDW
At an airfield/9.2 mi away/617 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
At a cooperative observer's station/0.6 mi away/584 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Chicago 3.3 SIL-CK-458
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.3 mi away/592 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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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.