Menomonie WILUM
At an airfield/5.1 mi away/896 ft/44 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Hoffman Hills State Recreation Area until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely tonight, from about 9 PM, the chance peaking at 60% around 5 AM.
Now. Hoffman Hills State Recreation Area is 48° and light rain at 9 PM. With the wind it feels like 44°. The dew point is 47°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the west-northwest at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 43° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 52°. Rain is likely tomorrow (94%). The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 31°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 11 hours 1 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Hoffman Hills State Recreation Area, Wisconsin.
Air quality
Index 13, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Chippewa Valley and Eastern Twin Cities (WI), 3 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 16, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
0.89 in in the last 24 hours, 0.97 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 5 miles Fri 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Hoffman Hills State Recreation Area, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Menomonie WILUM
At an airfield/5.1 mi away/896 ft/44 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.0 mi away/1,073 ft/133 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Eau Claire - I-94 @ USH 53ECRW3
Beside a road/21.8 mi away/881 ft/59 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
EAU GALLE RIVER AT Spring ValleySVPW3
At a river or reservoir gauge/22.6 mi away/928 ft/12 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Colfax 4.8 WWI-DN-26
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.7 mi away/895 ft/45 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/4.7 mi away/824 ft/116 ft below 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.