ChicagoCCHI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.7 mi away/598 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 8 degrees cooler: a high of 63° after 71° today.
Now. Soldier Field is 57° and clear at 5 AM. The dew point is 47°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the southwest at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 70° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 52° 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 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 63°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:27 PM. The Moon is a waning crescent, 35% lit, and rises at 12:57 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 5:00 AM in Soldier Field, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 25, good, led by fine particles. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Chicago (IL), 3 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 5, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 32, good.
No smoke near the ground through Tue 1 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 1.60 in over the last 3 days, to Sun 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Tue 1 AM, lowest 9 miles Mon 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 5 instruments nearest Soldier Field, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.6 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
ChicagoCCHI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.7 mi away/598 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
ChicagoMDW
At an airfield/8.8 mi away/617 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
US-34 @ Fox River BridgeSS1924
Beside a road/40.0 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
At a cooperative observer's station/0.6 mi away/584 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Chicago 3.3 SIL-CK-458
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.0 mi away/592 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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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.