Midewin Tallgrass PrairieWMGI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.2 mi away/561 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Now. Lakewood Shores is 57° and clear at 6 PM. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the south at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 42° 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 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 70°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:07 PM. The Moon is a first quarter, 52% lit, and sets at 12:05 AM after midnight. 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 bright Moon hides all but the brightest of them. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 1 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 6:00 PM in Lakewood Shores, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 33, good, led by ozone. Read at 6 PM from its reporting area, Joliet and Will County (IL), 8 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 28, good.
No smoke near the ground through Tue 1 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.35 in over the last 3 days, to Sun 5 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Tue 1 PM, lowest 8 miles Tue 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Lakewood Shores, IllinoisReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Lakewood Shores, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Midewin Tallgrass PrairieWMGI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.2 mi away/561 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW5503GW5503
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.5 mi away/600 ft/39 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
JolietJOT
At an airfield/16.4 mi away/581 ft/20 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
I-57 ChebanseSS1922
Beside a road/23.1 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/1.3 mi away/572 ft/11 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/9.0 mi away/525 ft/36 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 16.4 mi from Lakewood Shores, Illinois. From its report of Oct 18, 2026, 6:35 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
58.3 F with a dew point of 36.0 F, 43 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 5,100 ft up.
From the south (190 degrees) at 3 mph: force 1, a light air on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 20 mph.
The full report of Joliet, 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), 9.0 miles from here, read 18 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.