Citizen station KA9UAJKA9UAJ
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.0 mi away/649 ft/17 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Now. Golf is 51° and overcast at 8 AM. The dew point is 44°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the west-northwest at 7 mph, gusting to 22 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 56° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 38° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. 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 4 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 8:00 AM in Golf, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 18, good, led by ozone. Read at 7 AM from its reporting area, Chicago (IL), 16 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 33, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.50 in in the last 24 hours, 1.80 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 7 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 10 miles Fri 11 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Golf, IllinoisReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Golf, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station KA9UAJKA9UAJ
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.0 mi away/649 ft/17 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
SkokieSKOI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.7 mi away/620 ft/12 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
PalwaukeePWK
At an airfield/7.4 mi away/666 ft/34 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Rakow @ Pyott RdIMC03
Beside a road/29.1 mi away/895 ft/263 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Glenview 1.8 ESEIL-CK-40
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.8 mi away/659 ft/27 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Lake Zurich (Hydro)LKZI2
At a cooperative observer's station/16.6 mi away/807 ft/175 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 7.4 mi from Golf, Illinois. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 7:52 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 2,100 ft, overcast at 2,500 ft; the ceiling is 2,100 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
51.0 F with a dew point of 45.0 F, 80 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,400 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,100 ft.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 14 mph, gusting 22 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 36 mph.
The full report of Palwaukee, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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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.