Temperature
49 F at 12 AM; 52 F at its warmest, 10 AM Thursday, and 48 F at its coolest, 7 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 49F
- 12 AM
- Highest
- 52F
- 10 AM Thursday
- Lowest
- 48F
- 7 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Coming up. Rain is likely early this morning, from about 12 AM, the chance peaking at 81% around 2 AM.
Now. Ephraim-Gibraltar Airport is 49° and light rain at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 45°. The dew point is 48°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 39° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 64°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:02 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 9:41 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The Orionids meteor shower is active, peaking around Oct 21: at its peak, up to about 20 meteors an hour can be seen from a dark site. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 10 hours 57 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Ephraim-Gibraltar Airport, Wisconsin.
Air quality
Index 26, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Kewaunee-Door (WI), 28 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 26, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.74 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 3 miles Fri 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 / 19 unlit | 1,941 ft | 100 ft | Turf | - | - | - |
| 14 / 32 | 2,697 ft | 60 ft | Asphalt | 136° / 316° | 6 mph head, on 32 | 6 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Ephraim (3D2), Ephraim-Gibraltar Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
49 F at 12 AM; 52 F at its warmest, 10 AM Thursday, and 48 F at its coolest, 7 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 48 F, the air 97% saturated; the humidity ran from 69% at 10 AM Thursday to 97% at 12 AM.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
10 mph from the north at 12 AM; at its strongest 10 mph, 12 AM, with a gust of 17 mph at 12 AM.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
29.75 inHg at 12 AM, falling 0.05 inHg over 3 hours; 0.50 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 4 miles at 9 PM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 200 ft at 8 PM Thursday; a base was reported in 23 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.01 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.01 in, in the hour to 8 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Ephraim: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest Ephraim-Gibraltar Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
Ephraim3D2
At an airfield/0.1 mi away/754 ft/19 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Chambers IslandCBRW3
At a river or reservoir gauge/9.5 mi away/568 ft/205 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Ephraim 2.9 SWI-DR-23
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.5 mi away/684 ft/89 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Fish Creek 1 E WWTPFISW3
At a water treatment plant/2.2 mi away/646 ft/127 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Fish Creek 1 E WWTP (FISW3), 2.2 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 04:30. measured daily
19 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.