At an airfield/0.0 mi away/833 ft/4 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Sparta Fort McCoy Airport, Wisconsin
Small airport in Monroe County, Wisconsin* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 27 possible. * WHERE...Northeast Iowa, southeast Minnesota, and southwest into west central Wisconsin. * WHEN...From late Friday night through Saturday morning. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
51°
57°/41°
Light rain·
Feels like 51°·Gentle breeze 12 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Sparta Fort McCoy Airport until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely tonight, from about 9 PM (60%).
Now. Sparta Fort McCoy Airport is 51° and light rain at 9 PM. The dew point is 48°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 12 mph, gusting to 23 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 42° by 4 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. Rain is likely tomorrow (71%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 26°.
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 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 3 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
12Air quality
88%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
9:00 PM
51feels51
60%
Today
Oct 15
5741
100%
Fri
Oct 16
5435
71%
21mph
Sat
Oct 17
5926
12mph
Sun
Oct 18
6634
15mph
Mon
Oct 19
6836
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7135
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7341
overcast
51°
57°41°
54°35°
59°26°
66°34°
68°36°
71°35°
73°41°
As of 9:00 PM in Sparta Fort McCoy Airport, Wisconsin.
Air quality
The air at Sparta Fort McCoy Airport
Index 12, good, led by ozone. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Driftless Area North (WI), 17 miles off.
12Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)6Good-
- Ozone12Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 14, good.
GoodModerate
- 14YesterdayOct 14
- GoodTodayOct 15
- GoodFriOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Sparta Fort McCoy Airport
0.94 in in the last 24 hours, 1.05 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.94in
- Last 3 days
- 1.05in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 90%
Visibility
How far you can see at Sparta Fort McCoy Airport, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 4 miles Fri 6 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- CMY
- ICAO
- KCMY
- IATA
- CMY
- Field elevation
- 837 ft
- Serves
- Sparta
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- CMY
- Wind now
- From 300° at 12 mph, read 15 Oct, 21:17
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 / 19 | 3,032 ft | 95 ft | Asphalt | 15° / 195° | 3 mph head, on 01 | 12 mph from the left |
| 11 / 29 | 4,697 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 113° / 293° | 12 mph head, on 29 | 1 mph from the right |
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Sparta Fort McCoy Airport, 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 now4 instruments
Jackson Pass - I-90 @ 1 mi. W of CTH MTOAW3
Beside a road/6.9 mi away/991 ft/154 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
A remote fire weather station/24.1 mi away/823 ft/14 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Necedah 5 WNW54903
At a climate reference station/29.1 mi away/933 ft/96 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Sparta 5.3 ESEWI-MN-18
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.0 mi away/932 ft/95 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Caston 3NNWCTNW3
At a cooperative observer's station/12.2 mi away/950 ft/113 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Caston 3NNW (CTNW3), 12.2 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:57. measured daily
Elsewhere in Wisconsin
19 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Sparta Fort McCoy Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
Airports near Sparta Fort McCoy Airport
- Black River Falls Area AirportBCK, 21 mi
- Volk FieldVOK, 24 mi
- La Crosse Regional AirportLSE, 26 mi
- Viroqua Municipal AirportY51, 27 mi
- Mauston New Lisbon Union Airport82C, 31 mi
- Reedsburg Municipal AirportC35, 48 mi
- Alexander Field South Wood County AirportISW, 53 mi
- Marshfield Municipal AirportMFI, 54 mi