Miller Road BridgeIMC04
Beside a road/0.4 mi away/735 ft/12 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Now. Moraine Hills State Park is 61° and overcast at 10 PM. The dew point is 58°, so the air feels a little humid. Gentle breeze from the west at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 47° by 6 AM, under cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 68°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph. Frost is possible Saturday morning, a low of 35°.
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 6 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Moraine Hills State Park, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 29, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, North and West Suburbs (Chicago) (IL), 9 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
0.48 in in the last 24 hours, 0.63 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 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 Moraine Hills State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Miller Road BridgeIMC04
Beside a road/0.4 mi away/735 ft/12 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Nippersink Creek Above Wonder Lake05548105
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.4 mi away/798 ft/51 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station CW2377CW2377
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.4 mi away/851 ft/104 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
WaukeganUGN
At an airfield/20.8 mi away/709 ft/38 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
McHenry 2.3 SEIL-MCH-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.2 mi away/791 ft/44 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
McHenry Stratton Lock/DamMCHI2
At a dam/1.2 mi away/735 ft/12 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at McHenry Stratton Lock/Dam (MCHI2), 1.2 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.