Palos Park, IL Weather Forecast
Cook County, Illinois
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Palos Park, with free alerts the moment it counts.
The next few hours
Dry for the moment, with rain moving in this afternoon
It is 55° with a dew point of 44°, which is dry for this time of year. The sky is mostly cloudy.
The wind backs into the north-northwest around 10 PM, which is the turn that usually comes ahead of the change rather than after it. The first rain arrives between noon and 1 PM, with the best chance of it around 3 PM.
Taller, warmer bars mean heavier rain. Dotted means no reading for that hour.
Hour by hour
Wet through the window, then cooler and clearing
The wet part of the window runs from about noon to 10 PM, 12 hours of it, with the highest chance near 3 PM. Total accumulation over the window comes to about 0.36 in.
It tapers off after 10 PM. The overnight low settles near 41°. Tomorrow reaches 45°, 8° cooler than today. The humidity goes with it: tomorrow is the more comfortable half of this window, and the safer one for anything outdoors.
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
31–58°F across the weekThe week runs between 31° and 54°, with today the warmest day of it. There is no real trend across it: one day looks much like the next. Today is the wettest day, peaking near 81%. 5 of the 7 days stay dry.
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Palos Park, IL at a glance
Palos Park is home to about 4,765 people in Cook County, across 6.4 square miles. It ranks 336th by population of 441 places in Illinois with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Palos Heights, 2 miles away.
- County
- Cook County
- Population
- 4,765 2023 est.
- Land area
- 6.4 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 739
- Forecast point
- 41.6662°N, 87.8296°W
How well can the network see Palos Park?
The nearest Doppler radar is KLOT (Chicago, IL), to the WSW. Its lowest scan passes about 730 ft above Palos Park. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Palos Park show up clearly. Palos Park is closer to its radar than 92% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KMDW (Chicago/Midway Intl). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Palos Park
- Palos Heights, IL2 mi
- Palos Hills, IL2 mi
- Worth, IL2 mi
- Chicago Ridge, IL4 mi
- Hickory Hills, IL4 mi
- Orland Park, IL4 mi
- Alsip, IL5 mi
- Crestwood, IL5 mi
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