Miller Road BridgeIMC04
Beside a road/3.1 mi away/735 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
West Beach Park, Illinois
Beach in McHenry County, Illinois61°
63°/51°
Overcast·
Feels like 61°·Gentle breeze 9 mph W
Now. West Beach Park is 61° and overcast at 10 PM. The dew point is 58°, so the air feels a little humid. Gentle breeze from the west at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 47° by 6 AM, under cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 69°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph. Frost is possible Saturday morning, a low of 35°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 11 hours 6 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
29Air quality
92%Humidity
98%Cloud
Now
10:00 PM
61feels61
now, overcast
Today
Oct 15
6351
99%
13mph
Fri
Oct 16
5645
20%
21mph
Sat
Oct 17
5735
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6140
13mph
Mon
Oct 19
6441
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6743
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
6947
overcast
61°
63°51°
56°45°
57°35°
61°40°
64°41°
67°43°
69°47°
As of 10:00 PM in West Beach Park, Illinois.
Air quality
The air at West Beach Park
Index 29, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, North and West Suburbs (Chicago) (IL), 11 miles off.
29Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)29Good-
- Ozone16Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)8Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 36, good.
GoodModerate
- 36YesterdayOct 14
- GoodTodayOct 15
- GoodFriOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
- GoodMonOct 19
Smoke, the next 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at West Beach Park
0.59 in in the last 24 hours, 0.75 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.59in
- Last 3 days
- 0.75in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 79%
Visibility
How far you can see at West Beach Park, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Thu 10 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Beach
- County
- McHenry County
- State
- Illinois
- Latitude
- 42.3563° N
- Longitude
- 88.2965° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest West Beach Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Nippersink Creek Above Wonder Lake05548105
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.2 mi away/798 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.7 mi away/790 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
WaukeganUGN
At an airfield/22.6 mi away/709 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
McHenry 0.9 NIL-MCH-100
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/752 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
McHenry Stratton Lock/DamMCHI2
At a dam/3.9 mi away/735 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at McHenry Stratton Lock/Dam (MCHI2), 3.9 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Illinois
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near West Beach Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- McCullom Lakevillage, 1 mi
- McHenrycity, 1 mi
- Ringwoodvillage, 3 mi
- Johnsburgvillage, 4 mi
- Bull Valleyvillage, 4 mi
- Wonder Lakevillage, 4 mi
- Pistakee Highlandscommunity, 5 mi
- Greenwoodvillage, 5 mi
- Lakemoorvillage, 5 mi
- Holiday Hillsvillage, 6 mi
- Prairie Grovevillage, 6 mi
- Solon Millscommunity, 6 mi
Beaches near West Beach Park
- East Beach Parkunder 1 mi
- Petersen Park Beachunder 1 mi
- Wonder Center Beach3 mi
- Morrison Park Beach5 mi
- Main Beach9 mi
- West Beach9 mi
- Phil's Beach10 mi
- Channel Lake North Beach Park12 mi