Rakow @ Pyott RdIMC03
Beside a road/2.9 mi away/895 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
West Beach, Illinois
Beach in McHenry County, Illinois* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures are expected. * WHERE...Boone, De Kalb, Lee, Ogle, Winnebago, Kane, and McHenry Counties. * WHEN...From 5 AM to 8 AM CDT Saturday. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
41°
57°/35°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 35°·Gentle breeze 10 mph N
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for West Beach until 8 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. West Beach is 41° and mostly clear at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 35°. The dew point is 30°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north at 10 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 56° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 41° by 5 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 6:09 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 11 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 2 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
26Air quality
65%Humidity
13%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
41feels35
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 17
5735
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6239
14mph
Mon
Oct 19
6640
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6944
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7047
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7250
overcast
Fri
Oct 23
7252
overcast
41°
57°35°
62°39°
66°40°
69°44°
70°47°
72°50°
72°52°
As of 1:00 AM in West Beach, Illinois.
Air quality
The air at West Beach
Index 26, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, North and West Suburbs (Chicago) (IL), 6 miles off.
26Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)11Good6.6 mi
- Ozone26Good29 ppb6.6 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)3Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 32, good.
GoodModerate
- 32YesterdayOct 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 West Beach
0.13 in in the last 24 hours, 0.54 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.13in
- Last 3 days
- 0.54in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 24%
Visibility
How far you can see at West 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
Beach
- County
- McHenry County
- State
- Illinois
- Latitude
- 42.2339° N
- Longitude
- 88.3663° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest West Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.9 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
44N7E-17.8h1 (WOOD-08-01)421747088270701
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.2 mi away/943 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station EW7151EW7151
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.6 mi away/750 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/21.5 mi away/797 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Shabbona 5 NNE54811
At a climate reference station/36.8 mi away/861 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Crystal Lake 1.0 WSWIL-MCH-83
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.9 mi away/894 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Crystal Lake 4NWCRYI2
At a cooperative observer's station/2.4 mi away/932 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 West Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Lakewoodvillage, 1 mi
- Crystal Lakecity, 2 mi
- Ridgefieldcommunity, 3 mi
- Lake in the Hillsvillage, 3 mi
- Huntleyvillage, 5 mi
- Prairie Grovevillage, 6 mi
- Algonquinvillage, 6 mi
- Caryvillage, 6 mi
- Trout Valleyvillage, 6 mi
- Oakwood Hillsvillage, 6 mi
- Bull Valleyvillage, 7 mi
- Woodstockcity, 7 mi
Beaches near West Beach
- Main Beach1 mi
- Indian Trail Beach4 mi
- Butch Hagele Beach4 mi
- West Beach Park9 mi
- East Beach Park9 mi
- Petersen Park Beach10 mi
- Wonder Center Beach11 mi
- Morrison Park Beach11 mi