At an airfield/3.7 mi away/673 ft/1 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 12 degrees cooler: a high of 56° after 68° today.
Now. Lockport is 61° and light drizzle at 11 PM. The dew point is 59°, so the air feels a little humid. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 11 mph, gusting to 26 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 47° by 8 AM, under cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry.
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 8 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Lockport, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 33, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, South and West Suburbs (Chicago) (IL), 12 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 48, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.61 in in the last 24 hours, 0.69 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Thu 11 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Lockport, IllinoisReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Lockport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/3.7 mi away/673 ft/1 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Homer GlenHGPI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.8 mi away/773 ft/101 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW1515GW1515
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.6 mi away/755 ft/83 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
US-34 @ Fox River BridgeSS1924
Beside a road/18.0 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Lockport 0.2 WSWIL-WL-188
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.0 mi away/658 ft/14 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Romeoville WFOLOTI2
At a cooperative observer's station/3.0 mi away/659 ft/13 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 3.7 mi from Lockport, Illinois. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 1,000 ft, overcast at 1,600 ft; the ceiling is 1,600 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
60.8 F with a dew point of 60.8 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,000 ft.
From the west (280 degrees) at 13 mph, gusting 22 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 23 mph.
The full report of Romeoville/Chi, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Romeoville WFO (LOTI2), 3.0 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 18:54. 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.