Des PlainesDSCI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.1 mi away/643 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Now. Impact Field is 57° and mostly cloudy at 12:45 AM. The dew point is 47°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the south at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 70° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 49° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 64°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:28 PM. The Moon is a waning crescent, 35% lit, and rises at 12:58 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 38 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:45 AM in Impact Field, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 42, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Chicago (IL), 14 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 5, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 35, good.
No smoke near the ground through Mon 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 1.40 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Mon 7 PM, lowest 10 miles Sun 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 5 instruments nearest Impact Field, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.4 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Des PlainesDSCI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.1 mi away/643 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/3.3 mi away/673 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Rakow @ Pyott RdIMC03
Beside a road/28.0 mi away/895 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Park Ridge 0.4 SWIL-CK-56
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.4 mi away/650 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Glen Ellyn 4SGLEI2
At a cooperative observer's station/14.2 mi away/679 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.