Nippersink Creek Above Wonder Lake05548105
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.1 mi away/798 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Wonder Center Beach, Illinois
Beach in McHenry County, Illinois* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures are expected. * WHERE...De Kalb, Lee, Kane, and McHenry Counties. * WHEN...From 5 AM to 8 AM CDT Saturday. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
46°
55°/44°
Overcast·
Feels like 40°·Gentle breeze 13 mph WNW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Wonder Center Beach until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Wonder Center Beach is 46° and overcast at 7 AM. With the wind it feels like 40°. The dew point is 45°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 13 mph, gusting to 23 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 55° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° by 7 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 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:10 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 9:59 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
19Air quality
82%Humidity
97%Cloud
Now
7:00 AM
46feels40
13mph
Today
Oct 16
5544
15%
20mph
Sat
Oct 17
5734
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6138
13mph
Mon
Oct 19
6539
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6742
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
6945
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7049
overcast
46°
55°44°
57°34°
61°38°
65°39°
67°42°
69°45°
70°49°
As of 7:00 AM in Wonder Center Beach, Illinois.
Air quality
The air at Wonder Center Beach
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 7 AM from its reporting area, North and West Suburbs (Chicago) (IL), 14 miles off.
19Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)8Good12.9 mi
- Ozone19Good17 ppb12.9 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)4Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 32, good.
GoodModerate
- 32YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
- GoodMonOct 19
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Wonder Center Beach
0.48 in in the last 24 hours, 0.60 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 6 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.48in
- Last 3 days
- 0.60in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 80%
Visibility
How far you can see at Wonder Center Beach, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 9 miles Fri 7 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Beach
- County
- McHenry County
- State
- Illinois
- Latitude
- 42.3853° N
- Longitude
- 88.3484° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Wonder Center 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
Miller Road BridgeIMC04
Beside a road/6.4 mi away/735 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
In a volunteer observer's own ground/14.2 mi away/790 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
WaukeganUGN
At an airfield/24.9 mi away/709 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Wonder Lake 1.3 NEIL-MCH-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/879 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
McHenry Stratton Lock/DamMCHI2
At a dam/7.1 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), 7.1 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 Wonder Center Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Wonder Lakevillage, 1 mi
- Greenwoodvillage, 2 mi
- Ringwoodvillage, 2 mi
- McCullom Lakevillage, 3 mi
- Bull Valleyvillage, 4 mi
- McHenrycity, 5 mi
- Solon Millscommunity, 5 mi
- Johnsburgvillage, 6 mi
- Richmondvillage, 6 mi
- Woodstockcity, 7 mi
- Pistakee Highlandscommunity, 7 mi
- Hebronvillage, 7 mi
Beaches near Wonder Center Beach
- West Beach Park3 mi
- East Beach Park4 mi
- Petersen Park Beach4 mi
- Morrison Park Beach8 mi
- Main Beach10 mi
- West Beach11 mi
- Channel Lake North Beach Park13 mi
- Phil's Beach13 mi