Temperature
49 F at 10 PM; 54 F at its warmest, 11 AM, and 49 F at its coolest, 10 PM.
- Now
- 49F
- 10 PM
- Highest
- 54F
- 11 AM
- Lowest
- 49F
- 10 PM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
J. Douglas Bake Memorial Airport, Wisconsin
Small airport in Oconto County, Wisconsin* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures of 25 to 30 degrees possible. * WHERE...Portions of central, east central, and northeast 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.
49°
57°/39°
Light rain·
Feels like 46°·Light breeze 6 mph N
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for J. Douglas Bake Memorial 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 11 PM (85%).
Now. J. Douglas Bake Memorial Airport is 49° and light rain at 11 PM. The dew point is 47°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 43° by 6 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 67°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 52°. Rain is likely tomorrow (95%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 28°.
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. 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 1 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
25Air quality
94%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
49feels46
85%
Today
Oct 15
5739
100%
Fri
Oct 16
5236
95%
21mph
Sat
Oct 17
5628
14mph
Sun
Oct 18
6234
17mph
Mon
Oct 19
6337
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6536
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
6739
overcast
49°
57°39°
52°36°
56°28°
62°34°
63°37°
65°36°
67°39°
As of 11:00 PM in J. Douglas Bake Memorial Airport, Wisconsin.
Air quality
The air at J. Douglas Bake Memorial Airport
Index 25, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Kewaunee-Door (WI), 24 miles off.
25Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)-24.8 mi
- Ozone25Good21 ppb23.5 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 26, good.
GoodModerate
- 26YesterdayOct 14
- GoodTodayOct 15
- GoodFriOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at J. Douglas Bake Memorial Airport
0.85 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.85in
- Last 3 days
- 0.85in
Visibility
How far you can see at J. Douglas Bake Memorial Airport, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 4 miles Fri 1 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- OCQ
- ICAO
- KOCQ
- IATA
- -
- Field elevation
- 604 ft
- Serves
- Oconto
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- OCQ
- Wind now
- From 360° at 6 mph, read 15 Oct, 22:55
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04 / 22 unlit | 1,840 ft | 150 ft | Grass | 40° / 220° | 5 mph head, on 04 | 4 mph from the left |
| 11 / 29 | 3,199 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 109° / 289° | 2 mph head, on 29 | 6 mph from the right |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Oconto (OCQ), J. Douglas Bake Memorial Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 47 F, the air 94% saturated; the humidity ran from 73% at 11 AM to 94% at 9 PM.
- Dew point now
- 47F
- 10 PM
- Humidity now
- 94%
- Humidity, range
- 73 to 94%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
6 mph from the north at 10 PM; at its strongest 9 mph, 11 AM, with a gust of 16 mph at 10 AM.
- Now
- 6mph
- from the north
- Strongest
- 9mph
- 11 AM
- Highest gust
- 16mph
- 10 AM
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
29.78 inHg at 10 PM, falling 0.04 inHg over 3 hours; 0.45 inHg lower than a day before.
- Now
- 29.78inHg
- 10 PM
- 3 hours
- -0.04inHg
- falling
- 24 hours
- -0.45inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 2 miles at 5 PM; 7 miles now.
- Now
- 7mi
- Lowest
- 2mi
- 5 PM
- Hours under a mile
- 0
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
Cloud base
The lowest cloud base came down to 300 ft at 9 PM; a base was reported in 23 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- -
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 300ft
- 9 PM
- Hours with a base reported
- 23
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
Precipitation
0.83 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.16 in, in the hour to 5 PM.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.83in
- Wettest hour
- 0.16in
- 5 PM
- Hours with some
- 10
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Oconto: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest J. Douglas Bake Memorial 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 now3 instruments
OcontoOCQ
At an airfield/0.1 mi away/590 ft/14 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
I-43 SE end of Leo Frigo Bridge WI US WIDOTWI084
Beside a road/24.2 mi away/604 ft/level with here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Chambers IslandCBRW3
At a river or reservoir gauge/35.0 mi away/568 ft/36 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Oconto 4 WOCNW3
At a cooperative observer's station/2.4 mi away/659 ft/55 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Oconto 5.6 WSWWI-OC-19
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.2 mi away/617 ft/13 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Wisconsin
19 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near J. Douglas Bake Memorial Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Ocontocity, 2 mi
- Lenavillage, 9 mi
- Abramscommunity, 10 mi
- Oconto Fallscity, 11 mi
- Sobieskicommunity, 13 mi
- Colemanvillage, 15 mi
- Peshtigocity, 15 mi
- Poundvillage, 16 mi
- Little Sturgeoncommunity, 17 mi
- Dyckesvillecommunity, 18 mi
- Green Valleycommunity, 18 mi
- Krakowcommunity, 19 mi
Airports near J. Douglas Bake Memorial Airport
- Door County Cherryland AirportSUE, 24 mi
- Austin Straubel International AirportGRB, 29 mi
- Shawano Municipal AirportEZS, 32 mi
- Ephraim-Gibraltar Airport3D2, 40 mi
- Clintonville Municipal AirportCLI, 44 mi
- Appleton International AirportATW, 52 mi
- Manitowoc County AirportMTW, 53 mi
- Washington Island Airport2P2, 60 mi