Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Volk Field until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Volk Field is 49° and overcast at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 43°. The dew point is 46°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the west-northwest at 16 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 31° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 27°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:16 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10 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 1 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Volk Field, Wisconsin.
Air quality
Index 12, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Central Waters South (WI), 34 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 22, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.85 in in the last 24 hours, 0.90 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 6 miles Fri 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09 / 27 | 9,000 ft | 150 ft | Concrete | 89° / 269° | 17 mph head, on 27 | 3 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Camp Douglas - Volk Field (VOK), Volk Field's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
50 F at 10 PM Thursday; 54 F at its warmest, 1 AM Thursday, and 50 F at its coolest, 10 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 48 F, the air 93% saturated; the humidity ran from 73% at 3 AM Thursday to 96% at 6 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
16 mph from the west at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 17 mph, 9 PM Thursday, with a gust of 29 mph at 10 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
29.83 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, steady over 3 hours; 0.33 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 2 miles at 11 AM Thursday; 3 miles now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 300 ft at 10 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 22 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
The 6 instruments nearest Volk Field, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/0.7 mi away/899 ft/13 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Necedah 5WNWNCHW3
At a river or reservoir gauge/9.3 mi away/919 ft/7 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Necedah 5 WNW54903
At a climate reference station/9.3 mi away/933 ft/21 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Beside a road/13.7 mi away/991 ft/79 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
New Lisbon 2.2 SWI-JN-15
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.0 mi away/918 ft/6 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
NecedahNCHW3
At a cooperative observer's station/9.3 mi away/919 ft/7 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
19 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.