Control structure near Martin St at Madison430232089243701
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.3 mi away/851 ft/9 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Capital Springs State Recreation Area, Wisconsin
State Recreation Area in Dane County, Wisconsin58°
66°/38°
Clear·
Feels like 58°·Light breeze 7 mph SSW
Now. Capital Springs State Recreation Area is 58° and clear at 7 PM. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the south-southwest at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 43° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. 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 67°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky now. The Moon is a first quarter, 52% lit, and sets at 12:05 AM after midnight. 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 bright Moon hides all but the brightest of them. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 10 hours 57 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
13Air quality
44%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
7:00 PM
58feels58
now, clear
Today
Oct 18
6638
15mph
Mon
Oct 19
6743
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6742
mostly clear day
Wed
Oct 21
7043
clear day
Thu
Oct 22
7148
overcast
Fri
Oct 23
6949
overcast
Sat
Oct 24
7050
overcast
58°
66°38°
67°43°
67°42°
70°43°
71°48°
69°49°
70°50°
As of 7:00 PM in Capital Springs State Recreation Area, Wisconsin.
Air quality
The air at Capital Springs State Recreation Area
Index 13, good, led by fine particles. Read at 6 PM from its reporting area, Madison Area (WI), 4 miles off.
13Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)13Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)10Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 11, good.
GoodModerate
- 11YesterdayOct 17
- GoodTodayOct 18
- GoodMonOct 19
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Tue 1 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Capital Springs State Recreation Area
None in the last 24 hours; 0.16 in over the last 3 days, to Sun 6 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.16in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Capital Springs State Recreation Area, the next 43 hours
Dense fog: visibility falls to 0.1 miles Tue 8 AM, under a mile for 1 hour.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Recreation Area
- Area
- 3.41 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 860 ft
- County
- Dane County
- State
- Wisconsin
- Latitude
- 43.0255° N
- Longitude
- 89.3716° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Capital Springs State Recreation Area, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station FW3620FW3620
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.2 mi away/914 ft/54 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
MadisonMSN
At an airfield/8.1 mi away/856 ft/4 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Beside a road/10.9 mi away/912 ft/52 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Madison 5.6 SSEWI-DA-191
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.2 mi away/860 ft/level with here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
South Side-Arboretum Univ WiARBW3
In a park or preserve/3.1 mi away/892 ft/32 ft above 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 South Side-Arboretum Univ Wi (ARBW3), 3.1 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 10:32. measured daily
Elsewhere in Wisconsin
19 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Capital Springs State Recreation Area
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Mononacity, 3 mi
- Fitchburgcity, 3 mi
- Madisoncity, 3 mi
- McFarlandvillage, 4 mi
- Shorewood Hillsvillage, 5 mi
- Maple Bluffvillage, 6 mi
- Oregonvillage, 7 mi
- Middletoncity, 8 mi
- Veronacity, 9 mi
- Cottage Grovevillage, 10 mi
- Stoughtoncity, 10 mi
- Brooklynvillage, 12 mi