Des PlainesDSCI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.5 mi away/643 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Golf courses/Illinois/Golf Center Des Plaines
Now. Golf Center Des Plaines is 57° and overcast at 1 AM. The dew point is 52°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the west-northwest at 14 mph, gusting to 30 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 48° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 38° by 7 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 6:09 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 5 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Golf Center Des Plaines, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 14, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Chicago (IL), 19 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 34, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.49 in in the last 24 hours, 1.50 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Golf Center Des Plaines, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Des PlainesDSCI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.5 mi away/643 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
PalwaukeePWK
At an airfield/4.4 mi away/666 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station EW1098EW1098
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.9 mi away/630 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Rakow @ Pyott RdIMC03
Beside a road/24.5 mi away/895 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Mount Prospect 0.2 NNEIL-CK-367
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.6 mi away/664 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Lake Zurich (Hydro)LKZI2
At a cooperative observer's station/12.6 mi away/807 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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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.