Richton Park, IL Weather Forecast
Cook County, Illinois
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The next few hours
Special Weather Statement in effect for this location
A Special Weather Statement is in effect for this location. It runs for about another 4 hours.
It is 41°, but the wind is taking it down to 33° on exposed skin. The sky is mostly sunny.
The first rain arrives between 7 PM and 8 PM, with the best chance of it around 2 PM. That leaves a usable window outdoors until about 7 PM, and it closes quickly after that.
Taller, warmer bars mean heavier rain. Dotted means no reading for that hour.
Hour by hour
Wet through the window, then cooler and clearing
Wet weather moves in around 7 PM. Total accumulation over the window comes to about 0.30 in.
Pressure rises 0.03 inHg behind it, which is the drier air arriving. The overnight low settles near 37°. Tomorrow tops out near 42°. 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
29–57°F across the weekThe week runs between 29° and 53°, with Wednesday the warmest day of it. There is no real trend across it: one day looks much like the next. Tomorrow is the wettest day, peaking near 96%. 4 of the 7 days stay dry.
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Richton Park, IL at a glance
Richton Park is home to about 12,322 people in Cook County, across 4.4 square miles. It ranks 190th by population of 441 places in Illinois with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Matteson, 2 miles away.
- County
- Cook County
- Population
- 12,322 2023 est.
- Land area
- 4.4 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 2,806
- Forecast point
- 41.4802°N, 87.7425°W
How well can the network see Richton Park?
The nearest Doppler radar is KLOT (Chicago, IL), to the WNW. Its lowest scan passes about 1,100 ft above Richton Park. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Richton Park show up clearly. Richton Park is closer to its radar than 85% 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.
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