Des PlainesDSCI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.3 mi away/643 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Golf courses/Illinois/Lake Park Golf Course
Coming up. Tomorrow is 10 degrees cooler: a high of 56° after 66° today.
Now. Lake Park Golf Course is 65° and overcast at 10 PM. The dew point is 60°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Moderate breeze from the west at 13 mph, gusting to 25 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 49° by 6 AM, under cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 mph.
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-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. 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 10:00 PM in Lake Park Golf Course, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 37, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Chicago (IL), 16 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
0.61 in in the last 24 hours, 0.89 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Thu 10 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Lake Park Golf Course, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Des PlainesDSCI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.3 mi away/643 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station EW1098EW1098
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.5 mi away/630 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/4.0 mi away/673 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Rakow @ Pyott RdIMC03
Beside a road/25.5 mi away/895 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Park Ridge 0.7 WNWIL-CK-192
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.2 mi away/632 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Lake Zurich (Hydro)LKZI2
At a cooperative observer's station/14.7 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.