Midewin Tallgrass PrairieWMGI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.8 mi away/561 ft/9 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Now. Custer Park is 58° and overcast at 1 AM. The dew point is 55°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 48° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 76°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:10 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:03 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 6 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Custer Park, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 13, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Joliet and Will County (IL), 11 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 29, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.16 in in the last 24 hours, 0.62 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Custer Park, IllinoisReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Custer Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Midewin Tallgrass PrairieWMGI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.8 mi away/561 ft/9 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station EW5026EW5026
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.0 mi away/631 ft/61 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
KankakeeIKK
At an airfield/18.9 mi away/630 ft/60 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
I-57 ChebanseSS1922
Beside a road/20.5 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Wilmington 2.6 SEIL-WL-73
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.8 mi away/572 ft/2 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/11.1 mi away/525 ft/45 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 18.9 mi from Custer Park, Illinois. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 1,500 ft, broken at 2,600 ft, overcast at 4,800 ft; the ceiling is 1,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
57.6 F with a dew point of 55.4 F, 92 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 500 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,500 ft.
From the west northwest (300 degrees) at 13 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 25 mph.
The full report of Kankakee, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Coal City 4NNW (Hydro) (CTYI2), 11.1 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. 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.