Badger Mill Creek @ Highways 18 & 151 @ Madison05435935
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.5 mi away/965 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Fireman's Beach, Wisconsin
Beach in Dane County, Wisconsin* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 28 possible. * WHERE...Portions of east central, south central, and southeast 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°
54°/42°
Overcast·
Feels like 51°·Gentle breeze 12 mph WNW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Fireman's Beach until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Fireman's Beach is 51° and overcast at 12 AM. The dew point is 50°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 31° 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 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:14 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:01 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.
0UV Low
9Air quality
94%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
51feels51
12mph
Today
Oct 16
5442
42%
18mph
Sat
Oct 17
5730
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6338
14mph
Mon
Oct 19
6540
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6941
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7145
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7250
15%
51°
54°42°
57°30°
63°38°
65°40°
69°41°
71°45°
72°50°
As of 12:00 AM in Fireman's Beach, Wisconsin.
Air quality
The air at Fireman's Beach
Index 9, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Madison Area (WI), 9 miles off.
9Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)6Good12.4 mi
- Ozone9Good12 ppb12.4 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)2Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 21, good.
GoodModerate
- 21YesterdayOct 14
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Fireman's Beach
0.65 in in the last 24 hours, 0.70 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.65in
- Last 3 days
- 0.70in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 93%
Visibility
How far you can see at Fireman's Beach, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 1 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Beach
- County
- Dane County
- State
- Wisconsin
- Latitude
- 42.9792° N
- Longitude
- 89.5394° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Fireman's Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station GW0157GW0157
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.0 mi away/900 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
MiddletonC29
At an airfield/9.3 mi away/925 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Beside a road/19.3 mi away/912 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Verona 1.3 SEWI-DA-152
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.2 mi away/1,054 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
MadisonCHMW3
At a cooperative observer's station/6.4 mi away/1,056 ft/- ft from 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 Madison (CHMW3), 6.4 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 06:25. measured daily
Elsewhere in Wisconsin
19 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Fireman's Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Veronacity, 1 mi
- Fitchburgcity, 6 mi
- Bellevillevillage, 8 mi
- Shorewood Hillsvillage, 8 mi
- Oregonvillage, 9 mi
- Middletoncity, 9 mi
- Mount Horebvillage, 10 mi
- Madisoncity, 10 mi
- Cross Plainsvillage, 11 mi
- Mononacity, 12 mi
- Brooklynvillage, 12 mi
- New Glarusvillage, 13 mi
Beaches near Fireman's Beach
- Spring Harbor Beach8 mi
- Circle Bench8 mi
- Marshall Beach8 mi
- Vilas Beach8 mi
- Willow Beach9 mi
- Bernies Beach9 mi
- Brittingham Beach9 mi
- Olin Beach10 mi