Mississippi River AT Alma Dam 4ALMW3
At a dam/14.7 mi away/738 ft/83 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Merrick State Park, Wisconsin
State Park in Buffalo County, Wisconsin* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 26 expected. * WHERE...Portions of north central and northeast Iowa, southeast Minnesota, and central, north central, southwest, and west central 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.
47°
51°/40°
Overcast·
Feels like 43°·Gentle breeze 10 mph WNW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Merrick State Park until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely this morning, from about 7 AM (75%).
Now. Merrick State Park is 47° and overcast at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 43°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 10 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:22 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:05 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 0 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
18Air quality
81%Humidity
93%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
47feels43
now, overcast
Today
Oct 16
5140
80%
18mph
Sat
Oct 17
5632
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6340
12mph
Mon
Oct 19
6443
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6842
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7148
11%
Thu
Oct 22
7154
22%
47°
51°40°
56°32°
63°40°
64°43°
68°42°
71°48°
71°54°
As of 2:00 AM in Merrick State Park, Wisconsin.
Air quality
The air at Merrick State Park
Index 18, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Mississippi River Valley (MN), 9 miles off.
18Good
- Ozone18Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone.
GoodModerate
- 23TodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Merrick State Park
0.87 in in the last 24 hours, 0.89 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.87in
- Last 3 days
- 0.89in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 98%
Visibility
How far you can see at Merrick State Park, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 4 miles Fri 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 0.51 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 655 ft
- County
- Buffalo County
- State
- Wisconsin
- Latitude
- 44.1516° N
- Longitude
- 91.7499° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Merrick State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Arcadia - STH 93ACDW3
Beside a road/14.9 mi away/1,241 ft/586 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW7375GW7375
In a volunteer observer's own ground/30.8 mi away/712 ft/57 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
La CrosseLSE
At an airfield/31.0 mi away/650 ft/5 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Cochrane 0.6 ESEWI-BF-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.3 mi away/722 ft/67 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Mississippi River AT Alma Dam 4 (ALMW3), 14.7 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Wisconsin
19 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Merrick State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Fountain Citycity, 3 mi
- Cochranevillage, 7 mi
- Buffalo Citycity, 8 mi
- Dodgecommunity, 10 mi
- Waumandeecommunity, 11 mi
- Arcadiacity, 15 mi
- Almacity, 15 mi
- Trempealeauvillage, 18 mi
- Galesvillecity, 20 mi
- Independencecity, 22 mi
- Gilmantoncommunity, 22 mi
- Nelsonvillage, 23 mi