Miller Road BridgeIMC04
Beside a road/4.1 mi away/735 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Golf courses/Illinois/Golf Academy at Terra Cotta
Coming up. Tomorrow is 8 degrees cooler: a high of 56° after 64° today.
Now. Golf Academy at Terra Cotta is 59° and overcast at 11 PM. The dew point is 55°, so the air feels a little humid. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 47° by 6 AM, under cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 69°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph. Frost is possible Saturday morning, a low of 35°.
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. 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 7 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Golf Academy at Terra Cotta, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 23, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, North and West Suburbs (Chicago) (IL), 5 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
0.44 in in the last 24 hours, 0.56 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Thu 11 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Golf Academy at Terra Cotta, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.9 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Miller Road BridgeIMC04
Beside a road/4.1 mi away/735 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
44N7E-17.8h1 (WOOD-08-01)421747088270701
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.0 mi away/943 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station DW1814DW1814
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.5 mi away/830 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/22.0 mi away/797 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Crystal Lake 2.9 ENEIL-MCH-109
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.9 mi away/860 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
McHenry Stratton Lock/DamMCHI2
At a dam/3.3 mi away/735 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at McHenry Stratton Lock/Dam (MCHI2), 3.3 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.