Park Forest, IL Weather Forecast
Cook County, Illinois
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Park Forest, with free alerts the moment it counts.
The next few hours
Taller, warmer bars mean heavier rain. Dotted means no reading for that hour.
Hour by hour
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
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Park Forest, IL at a glance
Park Forest is home to about 20,763 people in Cook County, across 5 square miles. It ranks 117th by population of 441 places in Illinois with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is South Chicago Heights, 3 miles away.
- County
- Cook County
- Population
- 20,763 2023 est.
- Land area
- 5 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 4,185
- Forecast point
- 41.4817°N, 87.6868°W
How well can the network see Park Forest?
The nearest Doppler radar is KLOT (Chicago, IL), to the WNW. Its lowest scan passes about 1,300 ft above Park Forest. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Park Forest show up clearly. Park Forest is closer to its radar than 82% 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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