Midewin Tallgrass PrairieWMGI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.6 mi away/561 ft/4 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Now. Rest Haven is 46° and clear at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 42°. The dew point is 38°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. 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 34°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 35% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south. 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 11:00 PM in Rest Haven, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 15, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Joliet and Will County (IL), 9 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 28, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.77 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Rest Haven, IllinoisReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Rest Haven, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Midewin Tallgrass PrairieWMGI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.6 mi away/561 ft/4 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station EW5026EW5026
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.1 mi away/631 ft/66 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
JolietJOT
At an airfield/17.9 mi away/581 ft/16 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
I-57 ChebanseSS1922
Beside a road/21.6 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/0.7 mi away/572 ft/7 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/10.2 mi away/525 ft/40 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 17.9 mi from Rest Haven, Illinois. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 11:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
46.8 F with a dew point of 40.0 F, 77 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,600 ft up.
From the north (360 degrees) at 8 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 26 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), 10.2 miles from here, read 16 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.