ChicagoCHWI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.4 mi away/588 ft/3 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
William W. Powers State Recreation Area, Illinois
State Recreation Area in Cook County, Illinois51°
73°/48°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 51°·Light air 4 mph SSE
Now. William W. Powers State Recreation Area is 51° and mostly clear at 4 AM. The dew point is 46°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the south-southeast at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 72° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 58° 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 Saturday, near 78°, and the coolest Thursday, near 67°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:24 PM. The Moon is a waning crescent, 15% lit, and rises at 3:31 AM after midnight. The next new Moon is Saturday, Oct 10. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 33 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
34Air quality
84%Humidity
21%Cloud
Now
4:00 AM
51feels51
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 6
7348
13mph
Wed
Oct 7
7758
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 8
6755
mostly clear day
Fri
Oct 9
7050
overcast
Sat
Oct 10
7856
overcast
Sun
Oct 11
7861
overcast
Mon
Oct 12
7559
11%
51°
73°48°
77°58°
67°55°
70°50°
78°56°
78°61°
75°59°
As of 4:00 AM in William W. Powers State Recreation Area, Illinois.
Air quality
The air at William W. Powers State Recreation Area
Index 34, good, led by fine particles. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Hammond-Gary (IN), 12 miles off.
34Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)34Good1.2 mi
- Ozone17Good17 ppb3.2 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)9Good12.9 mi
- Nitrogen dioxide5Good5 ppb12.9 mi
- Sulfur dioxide1Good1.3 ppb3.2 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Wed Oct 7, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 34, good.
GoodModerate
- 34YesterdayOct 5
- GoodTodayOct 6
- GoodWedOct 7
Smoke, the next 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Thu 1 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at William W. Powers State Recreation Area
None in the last 3 days, to Tue 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at William W. Powers State Recreation Area, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Thu 1 AM, lowest 9 miles Wed 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Recreation Area
- Area
- 1.01 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 585 ft
- County
- Cook County
- State
- Illinois
- Latitude
- 41.6732° N
- Longitude
- 87.5374° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest William W. Powers State Recreation Area, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Citizen station FW3005FW3005
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.6 mi away/614 ft/29 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/9.6 mi away/617 ft/32 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Evergreen Park 5.6 ENE (GCI)IL-CK-452
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.2 mi away/610 ft/25 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Lansing 2SLNSI2
At a cooperative observer's station/9.1 mi away/614 ft/29 ft above 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 Lansing 2S (LNSI2), 9.1 miles from here, read 5 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
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Near William W. Powers State Recreation Area
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Burnhamvillage, 3 mi
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- Riverdalevillage, 5 mi
- South Hollandvillage, 6 mi
- Calumet Parkvillage, 6 mi
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- Dixmoorvillage, 7 mi
- Harveycity, 7 mi
- Lansingvillage, 7 mi
- Blue Islandcity, 7 mi
- Thorntonvillage, 8 mi