BH Pond Outlet Nr Waterside St at Madison430437089324001
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.7 mi away/1,070 ft/11 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Cross Plains State Park, Wisconsin
State Park 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.
50°
54°/41°
Overcast·
Feels like 45°·Gentle breeze 13 mph WNW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Cross Plains State Park until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Cross Plains State Park is 50° and overcast at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 45°. The dew point is 49°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 13 mph, gusting to 25 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 31° by 6 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 Wednesday, near 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 29°.
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
11Air quality
94%Humidity
98%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
50feels45
13mph
Today
Oct 16
5441
47%
18mph
Sat
Oct 17
5729
12mph
Sun
Oct 18
6237
14mph
Mon
Oct 19
6540
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6940
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7144
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7149
15%
50°
54°41°
57°29°
62°37°
65°40°
69°40°
71°44°
71°49°
As of 12:00 AM in Cross Plains State Park, Wisconsin.
Air quality
The air at Cross Plains State Park
Index 11, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Madison Area (WI), 10 miles off.
11Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)6Good13.3 mi
- Ozone11Good13 ppb13.3 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)2Good24.8 mi
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 Cross Plains State Park
0.66 in in the last 24 hours, 0.67 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.66in
- Last 3 days
- 0.67in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 99%
Visibility
How far you can see at Cross Plains State Park, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 5 miles Fri 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 0.24 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,081 ft
- County
- Dane County
- State
- Wisconsin
- Latitude
- 43.0831° N
- Longitude
- 89.6171° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Cross Plains State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station GW1627GW1627
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.6 mi away/1,067 ft/14 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
MiddletonC29
At an airfield/4.8 mi away/925 ft/156 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Beside a road/23.9 mi away/912 ft/169 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Verona 6.2 NNWWI-DA-130
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.0 mi away/1,098 ft/17 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
MadisonCHMW3
At a cooperative observer's station/7.2 mi away/1,056 ft/25 ft below 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), 7.2 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 Cross Plains State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Cross Plainsvillage, 3 mi
- Middletoncity, 6 mi
- Black Earthvillage, 7 mi
- Veronacity, 8 mi
- Mount Horebvillage, 8 mi
- Shorewood Hillsvillage, 9 mi
- Tyrol Basinski area, 9 mi
- Fitchburgcity, 10 mi
- Waunakeevillage, 11 mi
- Mazomanievillage, 11 mi
- Blue Moundsvillage, 11 mi
- Madisoncity, 12 mi