Downers Grove, IL Weather Forecast
DuPage County, Illinois
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Downers Grove, with free alerts the moment it counts.
The next few hours
Dry for the moment, with sleet moving in this morning
It is 44°, but the wind is taking it down to 42° on exposed skin. The sky is partly cloudy.
The first sleet arrives between 10 AM and 11 AM. That leaves a usable window outdoors until about 10 AM, and it closes quickly after that.
Taller, warmer bars mean heavier rain. Dotted means no reading for that hour.
Hour by hour
One wet spell, dry either side of it
There is one wet stretch in the window, near 10 AM. Total accumulation over the window comes to about 0.04 in.
The overnight low settles near 37°. 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
29–56°F across the weekThe week runs between 29° and 50°, 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 29%. 6 of the 7 days stay dry.
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Downers Grove, IL at a glance
Downers Grove is home to about 49,706 people in DuPage County, across 15 square miles. It ranks 30th by population of 441 places in Illinois with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Westmont, 2 miles away.
- County
- DuPage County
- Population
- 49,706 2023 est.
- Land area
- 15 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 3,392
- Forecast point
- 41.7950°N, 88.0211°W
How well can the network see Downers Grove?
The nearest Doppler radar is KLOT (Chicago, IL), to the SSW. Its lowest scan passes about 720 ft above Downers Grove. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Downers Grove show up clearly. Downers Grove is closer to its radar than 92% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KORD (Chicago/O'Hare Intl). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Downers Grove
- Westmont, IL2 mi
- Clarendon Hills, IL3 mi
- Lisle, IL3 mi
- Darien, IL4 mi
- Woodridge, IL4 mi
- Willowbrook, IL4 mi
- Oak Brook, IL5 mi
- Hinsdale, IL5 mi
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