Rain Gage At Des Plaines420121087523201
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.0 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Golf courses/Illinois/Park Ridge Country Club
Coming up. Tomorrow is 10 degrees cooler: a high of 56° after 66° today.
Now. Park Ridge Country Club is 65° and overcast at 9 PM. The dew point is 63°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Gentle breeze from the west-southwest at 11 mph, gusting to 24 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 48° by 7 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 70°, 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, 25% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 9:00 PM in Park Ridge Country Club, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 42, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Chicago (IL), 15 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 36, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
0.59 in in the last 24 hours, 0.97 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 6 miles Fri 11 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Park Ridge Country Club, 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 now4 instruments
Rain Gage At Des Plaines420121087523201
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.0 mi away/-/- 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/6.5 mi away/673 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Rakow @ Pyott RdIMC03
Beside a road/28.0 mi away/895 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Niles 1.4 WIL-CK-92
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.6 mi away/656 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/16.3 mi away/584 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.