Devils Lake Near Baraboo05404500
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.8 mi away/955 ft/81 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Sauk Prairie State Recreation Area, Wisconsin
State Recreation Area in Sauk 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°
58°/46°
Overcast·
Feels like 50°·Moderate breeze 13 mph WNW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Sauk Prairie State Recreation Area until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Sauk Prairie State Recreation Area is 50° and overcast at 11 PM. The dew point is 49°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the west-northwest at 13 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 44° by 5 AM, under cloud. 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 53°. Rain is possible tomorrow (37%). The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 29°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south. 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 4 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
9Air quality
94%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
50feels50
12%
13mph
Today
Oct 15
5846
100%
14mph
Fri
Oct 16
5341
37%
18mph
Sat
Oct 17
5729
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6337
14mph
Mon
Oct 19
6640
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6940
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7144
overcast
50°
58°46°
53°41°
57°29°
63°37°
66°40°
69°40°
71°44°
As of 11:00 PM in Sauk Prairie State Recreation Area, Wisconsin.
Air quality
The air at Sauk Prairie State Recreation Area
Index 9, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Madison Area (WI), 27 miles off.
9Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)6Good6.6 mi
- Ozone9Good13 ppb6.6 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)2Good6.6 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 21, good.
GoodModerate
- 21YesterdayOct 14
- GoodTodayOct 15
- GoodFriOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Sauk Prairie State Recreation Area
0.96 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.96in
- Last 3 days
- 0.96in
Visibility
How far you can see at Sauk Prairie State Recreation Area, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 4 miles Fri 12 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Recreation Area
- Area
- 5.22 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 874 ft
- County
- Sauk County
- State
- Wisconsin
- Latitude
- 43.3619° N
- Longitude
- 89.7627° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Sauk Prairie State Recreation Area, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station EW0200EW0200
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.6 mi away/871 ft/3 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/11.1 mi away/978 ft/104 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Montello - I-39 @ STH 23 EastWI056
Beside a road/32.7 mi away/851 ft/23 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Prairie Du Sac 0.6 SSEWI-SK-28
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.8 mi away/774 ft/100 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Baraboo 1SEBAAW3
At a cooperative observer's station/6.9 mi away/819 ft/55 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 Baraboo 1SE (BAAW3), 6.9 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Wisconsin
19 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Sauk Prairie State Recreation Area
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Bluffviewcommunity, 1 mi
- Prairie du Sacvillage, 5 mi
- Sauk Cityvillage, 6 mi
- Merrimacvillage, 7 mi
- Baraboocity, 8 mi
- Devils Headski area, 8 mi
- West Baraboovillage, 8 mi
- North Freedomvillage, 9 mi
- Lake Wisconsincommunity, 11 mi
- Rock Springsvillage, 11 mi
- Lodicity, 12 mi
- Mazomanievillage, 13 mi