Rakow @ Pyott RdIMC03
Beside a road/2.1 mi away/895 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Butch Hagele Beach until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Butch Hagele Beach is 48° and overcast at 6 AM. With the wind it feels like 43°. The dew point is 45°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 13 mph, gusting to 24 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 55° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° by 6 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 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:10 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 4 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 6:00 AM in Butch Hagele Beach, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 6 AM from its reporting area, North and West Suburbs (Chicago) (IL), 4 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 32, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.39 in in the last 24 hours, 0.82 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 5 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 5 miles Fri 1 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 7 instruments nearest Butch Hagele Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Rakow @ Pyott RdIMC03
Beside a road/2.1 mi away/895 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station EW7151EW7151
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.5 mi away/750 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Elgin Water Treatment Facility At Elgin420354088170500
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.4 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/17.2 mi away/797 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Shabbona 5 NNE54811
At a climate reference station/36.2 mi away/861 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Lake In The Hills 0.4 SSEIL-MCH-117
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.2 mi away/844 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Crystal Lake 4NWCRYI2
At a cooperative observer's station/6.6 mi away/932 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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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.