At an airfield/1.2 mi away/833 ft/103 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Mountain passes/Wisconsin/Lower Pass
Lower Pass, Wisconsin
Mountain pass in Monroe County, Wisconsin, at 936 ft* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 27 possible. * WHERE...Northeast Iowa, southeast Minnesota, and southwest into west central 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.
49°
57°/41°
Light rain·
Feels like 44°·Gentle breeze 12 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Lower Pass until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Lower Pass is 49° and light rain at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 44°. The dew point is 47°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 42° by 4 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. Rain is likely tomorrow (71%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 26°.
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-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. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 11 hours 3 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
12Air quality
93%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
10:00 PM
49feels44
42%
Today
Oct 15
5741
100%
Fri
Oct 16
5435
71%
21mph
Sat
Oct 17
5926
12mph
Sun
Oct 18
6634
15mph
Mon
Oct 19
6836
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7135
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7341
overcast
49°
57°41°
54°35°
59°26°
66°34°
68°36°
71°35°
73°41°
As of 10:00 PM in Lower Pass, Wisconsin.
Air quality
The air at Lower Pass
Index 12, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Driftless Area North (WI), 18 miles off.
12Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)6Good-
- Ozone12Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 14, good.
GoodModerate
- 14YesterdayOct 14
- GoodTodayOct 15
- GoodFriOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
Smoke, the next 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Lower Pass
0.95 in in the last 24 hours, 1.05 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.95in
- Last 3 days
- 1.05in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 90%
Visibility
How far you can see at Lower Pass, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 3 miles Fri 6 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Mountain pass
- Height
- 936 ft
- County
- Monroe County
- State
- Wisconsin
- Latitude
- 43.9722° N
- Longitude
- 90.7218° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Lower Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.2 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Stillwell Creek At Yard Road Near Tomah05382257
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.8 mi away/867 ft/69 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Jackson Pass - I-90 @ 1 mi. W of CTH MTOAW3
Beside a road/6.4 mi away/991 ft/55 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW0323GW0323
In a volunteer observer's own ground/23.5 mi away/811 ft/125 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Necedah 5 WNW54903
At a climate reference station/28.1 mi away/933 ft/3 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Sparta 5.3 ESEWI-MN-18
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.9 mi away/932 ft/4 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a fire lookout or ranger station/12.6 mi away/958 ft/22 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 Lower Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
Mountain passes near Lower Pass
- Lafayette Pass2 mi
- Upper Pass2 mi
- Raymore Pass4 mi
- Jacksonville Pass6 mi