Citizen station GW7261GW7261
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.6 mi away/683 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Golf courses/Illinois/Western Acres Golf Course
Coming up. Tomorrow is 10 degrees cooler: a high of 56° after 66° today.
Now. Western Acres Golf Course 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 13 mph, gusting to 24 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 48° by 6 AM, under cloud. Air quality is moderate (index 53): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
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 21 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 8 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Western Acres Golf Course, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 53, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, South and West Suburbs (Chicago) (IL), 14 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 48, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
0.40 in in the last 24 hours, 0.64 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 5 miles Thu 11 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Western Acres Golf Course, 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
Citizen station GW7261GW7261
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.6 mi away/683 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Wheaton Sewer Department At Wheaton415125088045700
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.3 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/10.5 mi away/673 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
US-34 @ Fox River BridgeSS1924
Beside a road/18.9 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Glen Ellyn 4SGLEI2
At a cooperative observer's station/0.8 mi away/679 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Glen Ellyn 0.5 ESEIL-DP-56
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.0 mi away/767 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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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.