ChicagoCHWI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.4 mi away/588 ft/3 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
William W. Powers State Recreation Area, Illinois
State Recreation Area in Cook County, Illinois67°
68°/55°
Overcast·
Feels like 67°·Gentle breeze 10 mph SW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 11 degrees cooler: a high of 57° after 68° today.
Now. William W. Powers State Recreation Area is 67° and overcast at 9 PM. The dew point is 67°, so the air feels oppressive. Gentle breeze from the southwest at 10 mph, gusting to 23 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 50° by 7 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. Rain is likely tomorrow (54%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 24 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
36Air quality
95%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
9:00 PM
67feels67
29%
Today
Oct 15
6855
97%
14mph
Fri
Oct 16
5747
54%
24mph
Sat
Oct 17
5842
21%
15mph
Sun
Oct 18
6340
13mph
Mon
Oct 19
6743
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6946
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7148
overcast
67°
68°55°
57°47°
58°42°
63°40°
67°43°
69°46°
71°48°
As of 9:00 PM in William W. Powers State Recreation Area, Illinois.
Air quality
The air at William W. Powers State Recreation Area
Index 36, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Hammond-Gary (IN), 12 miles off.
36Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)36Good1.2 mi
- Ozone12Good11 ppb3.2 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)30Good12.9 mi
- Nitrogen dioxide4Good4 ppb12.9 mi
- Sulfur dioxide0Good0.5 ppb3.2 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Fri Oct 16, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 40, good.
GoodModerate
- 40YesterdayOct 14
- GoodTodayOct 15
- GoodFriOct 16
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at William W. Powers State Recreation Area
0.41 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.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.41in
- Last 3 days
- 0.64in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 64%
Visibility
How far you can see at William W. Powers State Recreation Area, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 5 miles Fri 12 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Recreation Area
- Area
- 1.01 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 585 ft
- County
- Cook County
- State
- Illinois
- Latitude
- 41.6732° N
- Longitude
- 87.5374° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest William W. Powers State Recreation Area, 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 now3 instruments
Citizen station FW3005FW3005
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.6 mi away/614 ft/29 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/9.6 mi away/617 ft/32 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Evergreen Park 5.6 ENE (GCI)IL-CK-452
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.2 mi away/610 ft/25 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Lansing 2SLNSI2
At a cooperative observer's station/9.1 mi away/614 ft/29 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Lansing 2S (LNSI2), 9.1 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
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Near William W. Powers State Recreation Area
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Burnhamvillage, 3 mi
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- Riverdalevillage, 5 mi
- South Hollandvillage, 6 mi
- Calumet Parkvillage, 6 mi
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- Dixmoorvillage, 7 mi
- Harveycity, 7 mi
- Lansingvillage, 7 mi
- Blue Islandcity, 7 mi
- Thorntonvillage, 8 mi