At an airfield/0.0 mi away/659 ft/2 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Prairie Du Chien Municipal Airport, Wisconsin
Small airport in Crawford 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.
50°
59°/50°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 50°·Gentle breeze 10 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Prairie Du Chien Municipal Airport until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Prairie Du Chien Municipal Airport is 50° and mostly cloudy at 10 PM. The dew point is 47°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 10 mph, gusting to 20 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 45° by 4 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. Rain is likely tomorrow (64%). The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 31°.
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. The day is 11 hours 5 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
13Air quality
83%Humidity
65%Cloud
Now
10:00 PM
50feels50
13%
Today
Oct 15
5950
100%
Fri
Oct 16
5442
64%
16mph
Sat
Oct 17
5731
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6340
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
6643
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6943
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7147
overcast
50°
59°50°
54°42°
57°31°
63°40°
66°43°
69°43°
71°47°
As of 10:00 PM in Prairie Du Chien Municipal Airport, Wisconsin.
Air quality
The air at Prairie Du Chien Municipal Airport
Index 13, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Driftless Area South (WI), 38 miles off.
13Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)13Good-
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 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Prairie Du Chien Municipal Airport
1.25 in in the last 24 hours, 1.30 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 1.25in
- Last 3 days
- 1.30in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 96%
Visibility
How far you can see at Prairie Du Chien Municipal Airport, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 4 miles Fri 9 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- PDC
- ICAO
- KPDC
- IATA
- PCD
- Field elevation
- 661 ft
- Serves
- Prairie Du Chien
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- PDC
- Wind now
- -
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 / 29 | 3,999 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 110° / 290° | - | - |
| 14 / 32 | 5,000 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 140° / 320° | - | - |
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Prairie Du Chien Municipal 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 now3 instruments
Prairie du Chien - USH 18 @ Miss. RiverPDUW3
Beside a road/2.5 mi away/615 ft/46 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Mississippi River AT Lynxville Dam 9LYNW3
At a dam/13.3 mi away/633 ft/28 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Prairie Du ChienPDCW3
At a cooperative observer's station/2.3 mi away/656 ft/5 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Prairie Du Chien 1.6 NWI-CR-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.4 mi away/633 ft/28 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Prairie Du Chien (PDCW3), 2.3 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Wisconsin
19 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Prairie Du Chien Municipal Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Prairie du Chiencity, 2 mi
- Bagleyvillage, 8 mi
- Patch Grovevillage, 9 mi
- Eastmanvillage, 11 mi
- Wauzekavillage, 13 mi
- Glen Havencommunity, 13 mi
- Bloomingtonvillage, 14 mi
- Mount Hopevillage, 14 mi
- Lynxvillevillage, 16 mi
- Woodmanvillage, 17 mi
- Steubenvillage, 18 mi
- Senecacommunity, 19 mi
Airports near Prairie Du Chien Municipal Airport
- Boscobel AirportOVS, 25 mi
- Viroqua Municipal AirportY51, 40 mi
- Platteville Municipal AirportPVB, 41 mi
- Iowa County AirportMRJ, 46 mi
- Tri-County Regional AirportLNR, 49 mi
- La Crosse Regional AirportLSE, 60 mi
- Reedsburg Municipal AirportC35, 67 mi
- Sparta Fort McCoy AirportCMY, 68 mi