Yahara River At Mc Farland05429500
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.8 mi away/840 ft/27 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Lake Kegonsa State Park, Wisconsin
State Park in Dane County, Wisconsin* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 28 expected. * WHERE...Portions of east central, south central, and southeast Wisconsin. * WHEN...From 1 AM to 9 AM CDT Saturday. * 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.
52°
54°/43°
Overcast·
Feels like 52°·Gentle breeze 11 mph WNW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Lake Kegonsa State Park until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Lake Kegonsa State Park is 52° and overcast at 12 AM. The dew point is 50°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 11 mph, gusting to 26 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 32° 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 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:13 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 3 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
11Air quality
90%Humidity
98%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
52feels52
now, overcast
Today
Oct 16
5443
33%
19mph
Sat
Oct 17
5730
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6238
14mph
Mon
Oct 19
6540
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6941
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7144
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7149
14%
52°
54°43°
57°30°
62°38°
65°40°
69°41°
71°44°
71°49°
As of 12:00 AM in Lake Kegonsa State Park, Wisconsin.
Air quality
The air at Lake Kegonsa State Park
Index 11, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Madison Area (WI), 11 miles off.
11Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)4Good10.2 mi
- Ozone11Good13 ppb10.2 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)2Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 21, good.
GoodModerate
- 21YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Lake Kegonsa State Park
0.57 in in the last 24 hours, 0.66 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.57in
- Last 3 days
- 0.66in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 86%
Visibility
How far you can see at Lake Kegonsa State Park, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 7 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 0.55 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 867 ft
- County
- Dane County
- State
- Wisconsin
- Latitude
- 42.9813° N
- Longitude
- 89.2404° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Lake Kegonsa State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Beside a road/4.3 mi away/912 ft/45 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station FW3620FW3620
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.1 mi away/914 ft/47 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
MadisonMSN
At an airfield/12.2 mi away/856 ft/11 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
McFarland 3.0 SSEWI-DA-145
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.4 mi away/858 ft/9 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
StoughtonSTOW3
At a cooperative observer's station/4.6 mi away/883 ft/16 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Wisconsin
19 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Lake Kegonsa State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.