ChicagoCHUI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.5 mi away/620 ft/2 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Now. Merrionette Park is 62° and light rain at 12 AM. The dew point is 56°, so the air feels a little humid. Moderate breeze from the west at 16 mph, gusting to 31 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 50° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 42° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. 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 9:59 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 5 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Merrionette Park, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 29, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, South and West Suburbs (Chicago) (IL), 8 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
0.66 in in the last 24 hours, 0.86 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 11 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Merrionette Park, IllinoisReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Merrionette Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
ChicagoCHUI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.5 mi away/620 ft/2 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
ChicagoMDW
At an airfield/7.7 mi away/617 ft/5 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.3 mi away/615 ft/7 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
US-34 @ Fox River BridgeSS1924
Beside a road/33.9 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Merrionette Park 0.6 NIL-CK-239
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.5 mi away/622 ft/level with here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/5.6 mi away/617 ft/5 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 7.7 mi from Merrionette Park, Illinois. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
A few clouds at 1,200 ft, broken at 1,900 ft, overcast at 4,100 ft; the ceiling is 1,900 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
59.0 F with a dew point of 55.0 F, 87 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 900 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,200 ft.
From the west northwest (290 degrees) at 17 mph, gusting 31 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 32 mph.
The full report of Chicago, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Chicago Midway AP 3SW (MDWI2), 5.6 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 23:58. 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.