Stillwell Creek At Yard Road Near Tomah05382257
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.6 mi away/867 ft/152 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Wisconsin/Lafayette Pass
Lafayette Pass, Wisconsin
Mountain pass in Monroe County, Wisconsin, at 1,019 ft* 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°/35°
Partly cloudy·
Feels like 45°·Gentle breeze 9 mph N
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Lafayette Pass until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Lafayette Pass is 49° and partly cloudy at 5 PM. With the wind it feels like 45°. The dew point is 33°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north at 9 mph, gusting to 21 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 30° 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 57°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 27°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:18 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:01 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.
0UV Low
4Air quality
48%Humidity
42%Cloud
Now
5:00 PM
49feels45
now, partly cloudy
Today
Oct 16
5335
60%
21mph
Sat
Oct 17
5727
12mph
Sun
Oct 18
6433
14mph
Mon
Oct 19
6734
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6934
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7038
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7244
12%
49°
53°35°
57°27°
64°33°
67°34°
69°34°
70°38°
72°44°
As of 5:00 PM in Lafayette Pass, Wisconsin.
Air quality
The air at Lafayette Pass
Index 4, good, led by fine particles. Read at 4 PM from its reporting area, Driftless Area North (WI), 19 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 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Lafayette Pass
0.44 in in the last 24 hours, 1.40 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 4 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.44in
- Last 3 days
- 1.40in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 31%
Visibility
How far you can see at Lafayette Pass, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 1 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 2 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Mountain pass
- Height
- 1,019 ft
- County
- Monroe County
- State
- Wisconsin
- Latitude
- 43.9780° N
- Longitude
- 90.6826° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Lafayette Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.6 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
At an airfield/3.1 mi away/833 ft/186 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Jackson Pass - I-90 @ 1 mi. W of CTH MTOAW3
Beside a road/4.9 mi away/991 ft/28 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW0323GW0323
In a volunteer observer's own ground/25.5 mi away/811 ft/208 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Necedah 5 WNW54903
At a climate reference station/26.1 mi away/933 ft/86 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Sparta 5.3 ESEWI-MN-18
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.6 mi away/932 ft/87 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a fire lookout or ranger station/10.7 mi away/958 ft/61 ft below 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 Lafayette Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
Mountain passes near Lafayette Pass
- Upper Passunder 1 mi
- Raymore Pass2 mi
- Lower Pass2 mi
- Jacksonville Pass5 mi