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At a river or reservoir gauge/3.4 mi away/854 ft/4 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Wildcat Mountain State Park, Wisconsin
State Park in Vernon County, Wisconsin* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures ranging from the mid-20s to lower 30s. * 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.
49°
53°/39°
Overcast·
Feels like 42°·Fresh breeze 20 mph N
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Wildcat Mountain State Park until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Wildcat Mountain State Park is 49° and overcast at 1 PM. With the wind it feels like 42°. The dew point is 40°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north at 20 mph, gusting to 30 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 4 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 Thursday, near 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:17 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:02 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 1 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
2UV Low
4Air quality
71%Humidity
91%Cloud
Now
1:00 PM
49feels42
20mph
Today
Oct 16
5339
61%
22mph
Sat
Oct 17
5830
12mph
Sun
Oct 18
6436
16mph
Mon
Oct 19
6638
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6938
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7042
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7248
10%
49°
53°39°
58°30°
64°36°
66°38°
69°38°
70°42°
72°48°
As of 1:00 PM in Wildcat Mountain State Park, Wisconsin.
Air quality
The air at Wildcat Mountain State Park
Index 4, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 PM from its reporting area, Driftless Area North (WI), 36 miles off.
4Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)4Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 10, good.
GoodModerate
- 10YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Wildcat Mountain State Park
0.91 in in the last 24 hours, 0.95 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 11 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.91in
- Last 3 days
- 0.95in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 96%
Visibility
How far you can see at Wildcat Mountain State Park, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 7 AM, lowest 9 miles Sat 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 6.35 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 858 ft
- County
- Vernon County
- State
- Wisconsin
- Latitude
- 43.6823° N
- Longitude
- 90.5727° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Wildcat Mountain State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.8 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Citizen station KB2UHF-8KB2UHF-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.7 mi away/1,097 ft/239 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
ViroquaY51
At an airfield/17.7 mi away/1,283 ft/425 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Jackson Pass - I-90 @ 1 mi. W of CTH MTOAW3
Beside a road/17.8 mi away/991 ft/133 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Necedah 5 WNW54903
At a climate reference station/32.9 mi away/933 ft/75 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
OntarioONTW3
At a cooperative observer's station/2.8 mi away/899 ft/41 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
La Farge 5.5 EWI-VR-19
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.4 mi away/1,259 ft/401 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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 Wildcat Mountain State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.