WinnetkaWNKI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.4 mi away/624 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Tower Road Beach, Illinois
Beach in Cook County, Illinois43°
58°/37°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 39°·Light breeze 7 mph N
Now. Tower Road Beach is 43° and mostly clear at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 39°. The dew point is 30°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 56° by 2 PM. 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 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 62°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:06 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 10:57 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 1 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
26Air quality
62%Humidity
17%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
43feels39
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 17
5837
12mph
Sun
Oct 18
6242
14mph
Mon
Oct 19
6542
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6846
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
6949
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7251
overcast
Fri
Oct 23
7153
overcast
43°
58°37°
62°42°
65°42°
68°46°
69°49°
72°51°
71°53°
As of 1:00 AM in Tower Road Beach, Illinois.
Air quality
The air at Tower Road Beach
Index 26, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Chicago (IL), 19 miles off.
26Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)8Good3.8 mi
- Ozone26Good24 ppb3.8 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)-3.8 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 33, good.
GoodModerate
- 33YesterdayOct 16
- GoodTodayOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
- GoodMonOct 19
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Tower Road Beach
0.01 in in the last 24 hours, 0.76 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.01in
- Last 3 days
- 0.76in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 1%
Visibility
How far you can see at Tower Road Beach, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 7 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing NE 56°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Beach
- County
- Cook County
- State
- Illinois
- Latitude
- 42.1169° N
- Longitude
- 87.7315° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Tower Road Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station FW1203FW1203
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.5 mi away/628 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
PalwaukeePWK
At an airfield/8.9 mi away/666 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Miller Road BridgeIMC04
Beside a road/30.3 mi away/735 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Winnetka 1.0 NWIL-CK-473
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.2 mi away/627 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Lake Zurich (Hydro)LKZI2
At a cooperative observer's station/17.5 mi away/807 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Illinois
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Tower Road Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Winnetkavillage, 1 mi
- Glencoevillage, 2 mi
- Kenilworthvillage, 2 mi
- Northfieldvillage, 3 mi
- Wilmettevillage, 3 mi
- Glenviewvillage, 5 mi
- Golfvillage, 5 mi
- Evanstoncity, 5 mi
- Skokievillage, 6 mi
- Northbrookvillage, 6 mi
- Highland Parkcity, 6 mi
- Morton Grovevillage, 6 mi
Beaches near Tower Road Beach
- Maple Street Beachunder 1 mi
- Cherry Street Beach1 mi
- Dell Place Beach1 mi
- Elder Lane Beach2 mi
- Glencoe Beach2 mi
- Glencoe Boating Beach2 mi
- Kenilworth Beach2 mi
- Langdon Beach3 mi