Parks/Illinois/Chicago + State Park

Chicago + State Park, Illinois

State Park in Cook County, Illinois

54° 58°/48°

Overcast· Feels like 54°·Gentle breeze 12 mph WNW

Now. Chicago + State Park is 54° and overcast at 3 AM. The dew point is 50°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 12 mph, gusting to 26 mph.

Today and tonight. It warms to about 57° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 43° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky.

The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 70°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry.

The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:08 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.

0UV Low

11Air quality

82%Humidity

96%Cloud

Now

3:00 AM

54feels54

12mph

Today

Oct 16

5848

41%

25mph

Sat

Oct 17

5943

11%

16mph

Sun

Oct 18

6143

12mph

Mon

Oct 19

6447

Tue

Oct 20

6649

Wed

Oct 21

6852

Thu

Oct 22

7054

54°

58°48°

59°43°

61°43°

64°47°

66°49°

68°52°

70°54°

As of 3:00 AM in Chicago + State Park, Illinois.

Air quality

The air at Chicago + State Park

Index 11, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Chicago (IL), 5 miles off.

11Good

Fine particles (PM2.5)8Good-
Ozone11Good-

The days ahead

Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 33, good.

GoodModerate

33YesterdayOct 15
GoodTodayOct 16
GoodSatOct 17
GoodSunOct 18
GoodMonOct 19

Smoke, the next 41 hours

No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.

Precipitation

What has fallen at Chicago + State Park

0.35 in in the last 24 hours, 0.64 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.

Last 24 hours: 0.35in
Last 3 days: 0.64in

3 days agoLast 24 hours 55%

Visibility

How far you can see at Chicago + State Park, the next 41 hours

Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 12 PM.

Park

Designation: State Park
Area: 6,330 sq ft
Height at its point: 589 ft
County: Cook County
State: Illinois
Latitude: 41.8971° N
Longitude: 87.6281° W

What is measuring near here

The 5 instruments nearest Chicago + State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.

measured now3 instruments

Citizen station GW2066GW2066

In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.2 mi away/598 ft/9 ft above here

temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure

Rain Gage At Ping Tom Park At Chicago415118087381201

At a river or reservoir gauge/2.9 mi away/-/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

ChicagoMDW

At an airfield/10.0 mi away/617 ft/28 ft above here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

measured daily2 instruments

Chicago 4.9 NEIL-CK-39