Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Dane County Regional Truax Field until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Dane County Regional Truax Field is 51° and overcast at 12 AM. The dew point is 49°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 12 mph, gusting to 26 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 32° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:13 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 9:59 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 11 hours 2 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Dane County Regional Truax Field, Wisconsin.
Air quality
Index 11, 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
0.58 in in the last 24 hours, 0.65 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 7 miles Fri 1 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03 / 21 | 7,200 ft | 150 ft | Concrete | 29° / 209° | 0 mph head, on 03 | 10 mph from the left |
| 14 / 32 | 5,846 ft | 150 ft | Concrete | 136° / 316° | 10 mph head, on 32 | 3 mph from the left |
| 18 / 36 | 9,006 ft | 150 ft | Concrete | 182° / 2° | 5 mph head, on 36 | 9 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Madison (MSN), Dane County Regional Truax Field's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
53 F at 10 PM Thursday; 57 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 53 F at its coolest, 10 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 51 F, the air 93% saturated; the humidity ran from 74% at 4 AM Thursday to 98% at 7 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
10 mph from the northwest at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 10 mph, 10 PM Thursday, with a gust of 21 mph at 9 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
29.81 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, 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 2 miles at 10 AM Thursday; 9 miles now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 300 ft at 8 PM Thursday; a base was reported in 22 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.58 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.11 in, in the hour to 1 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Madison: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Dane County Regional Truax Field, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
MadisonMSN
At an airfield/0.4 mi away/856 ft/31 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Beside a road/13.3 mi away/912 ft/25 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
BrooklynBKNW3
At a river or reservoir gauge/20.3 mi away/916 ft/29 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Madison 4.0 NNEWI-DA-139
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.3 mi away/916 ft/29 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
South Side-Arboretum Univ WiARBW3
In a park or preserve/8.2 mi away/892 ft/5 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at South Side-Arboretum Univ Wi (ARBW3), 8.2 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 08:32. 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.