Chicago Heights, IL Weather Forecast
Cook County, Illinois
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Chicago Heights, with free alerts the moment it counts.
The next few hours
Dry for the moment, with rain moving in this afternoon
It is 44°, but the wind is taking it down to 41° on exposed skin. The sky is mostly sunny.
Pressure is easing down, 0.02 inHg over the last hour. The first rain arrives between 3 PM and 4 PM, with the best chance of it around midnight. That leaves a usable window outdoors until about 3 PM, and it closes quickly after that.
Taller, warmer bars mean heavier rain. Dotted means no reading for that hour.
Hour by hour
A long wet stretch ahead
Wet weather moves in around 3 PM. Total accumulation over the window comes to about 1.46 in.
The overnight low settles near 40°. Tomorrow tops out near 45°.
Sunrise and sunset
Next five days, scored 0 to 100The first day or two use the HRRR and NBM cloud layers. Later days only have total cloud, so treat them as a rough guide.
Know when sunset at this place will be worth a photo
We score every sunrise and sunset here from the cloud, haze and smoke forecast, and let you know when one is likely to light up. Sunrise the evening before, sunset a few hours ahead.
Seven-day outlook
30–57°F across the weekThe week runs between 30° and 49°, with Tuesday the warmest day of it. There is no real trend across it: one day looks much like the next. Friday is the wettest day, peaking near 100%. 4 of the 7 days stay dry.
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Chicago Heights, IL at a glance
Chicago Heights is home to about 26,184 people in Cook County, across 10 square miles. It ranks 84th by population of 441 places in Illinois with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is South Chicago Heights, 2 miles away.
- County
- Cook County
- Population
- 26,184 2023 est.
- Land area
- 10 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 2,546
- Forecast point
- 41.5107°N, 87.6347°W
How well can the network see Chicago Heights?
The nearest Doppler radar is KLOT (Chicago, IL), to the WNW. Its lowest scan passes about 1,400 ft above Chicago Heights. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Chicago Heights show up clearly. Chicago Heights is closer to its radar than 79% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KIGQ (Chicago/Lansing Muni). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Chicago Heights
- South Chicago Heights, IL2 mi
- Glenwood, IL2 mi
- Steger, IL3 mi
- Olympia Fields, IL3 mi
- Flossmoor, IL3 mi
- Park Forest, IL3 mi
- Sauk Village, IL4 mi
- Homewood, IL4 mi
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