Temperature
53 F at 10 PM; 57 F at its warmest, 5 PM, and 53 F at its coolest, 10 PM.
- Now
- 53F
- 10 PM
- Highest
- 57F
- 5 PM
- Lowest
- 53F
- 10 PM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Middleton Municipal Morey Field until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Middleton Municipal Morey Field is 53° and overcast at 11 PM. The dew point is 52°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the west-northwest at 13 mph, gusting to 24 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 44° by 7 AM, under cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. Rain is possible tomorrow (49%). The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 30°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 11 hours 6 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Middleton Municipal Morey Field, Wisconsin.
Air quality
Index 9, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Madison Area (WI), 6 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 21, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.52 in in the last 24 hours, 0.57 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 7 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 / 19 unlit | 1,780 ft | 120 ft | GRE | 8° / 188° | 5 mph head, on 01 | 12 mph from the left |
| 10 / 28 | 4,001 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 100° / 280° | 12 mph head, on 28 | 4 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Middleton (C29), Middleton Municipal Morey Field's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
53 F at 10 PM; 57 F at its warmest, 5 PM, and 53 F at its coolest, 10 PM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 52 F, the air 97% saturated; the humidity ran from 69% at 3 AM to 98% at 9 PM.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
13 mph from the west northwest at 10 PM; at its strongest 13 mph, 10 PM, with a gust of 23 mph at 10 PM.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
29.83 inHg at 10 PM, rising 0.03 inHg over 3 hours; 0.37 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 3 miles at 11 AM; 7 miles now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 400 ft at 2 PM; a base was reported in 23 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.53 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.11 in, in the hour to 12 PM.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Middleton: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Middleton Municipal Morey Field, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.0 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
MiddletonC29
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/925 ft/3 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
BrooklynBKNW3
At a river or reservoir gauge/17.0 mi away/916 ft/12 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Beside a road/20.5 mi away/912 ft/16 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Middleton 0.8 SSWWI-DA-60
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.8 mi away/1,025 ft/97 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
MadisonCHMW3
At a cooperative observer's station/4.6 mi away/1,056 ft/128 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Madison (CHMW3), 4.6 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 06:25. 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.