ChicagoCCHI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.1 mi away/598 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 8 degrees cooler: a high of 58° after 66° today.
Now. Rate Field is 64° and overcast at 11 PM. The dew point is 60°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Gentle breeze from the west at 11 mph, gusting to 23 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 49° by 7 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 68°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. Rain is possible tomorrow (41%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 25 mph.
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 7 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Rate Field, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 27, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Chicago (IL), 2 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
0.43 in in the last 24 hours, 0.66 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Thu 11 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Rate Field, 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
ChicagoCCHI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.1 mi away/598 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW2066GW2066
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.6 mi away/598 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
ChicagoMDW
At an airfield/6.8 mi away/617 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
US-34 @ Fox River BridgeSS1924
Beside a road/38.5 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Chicago 3.3 SIL-CK-458
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.4 mi away/592 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/2.2 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.