Lakeside 4.5 NWQLKA3
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.8 mi away/6,719 ft/46 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Now. Lake of the Woods is 48° and clear at 8 PM. The dew point is 40°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north-northeast at 4 mph, gusting to 23 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 45° by 1 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 67°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 60°. Rain is likely Wednesday (64%). Rain is possible Saturday (47%), Sunday (31%), Monday (42%) and Tuesday (45%).
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and sets at 9:05 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 22 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 8:00 PM in Lake of the Woods, Arizona.
Air quality
Index 5, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 8 PM from its reporting area, Miami (AZ), 71 miles off.
Highest 52, moderate, Fri Oct 16, led by coarse particles. Yesterday measured 9, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.46 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 7 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 5 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Lake of the Woods, ArizonaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Lake of the Woods, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Lakeside 4.5 NWQLKA3
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.8 mi away/6,719 ft/46 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW4060FW4060
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.5 mi away/6,596 ft/169 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/7.6 mi away/6,411 ft/354 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
SR-260 @ MP-378AZT18
Beside a road/24.6 mi away/9,123 ft/2,358 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Lakeside 0.7 SWAZ-NV-51
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.0 mi away/6,736 ft/29 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Mcnary 2NMNYA3
At a cooperative observer's station/8.2 mi away/7,398 ft/633 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 7.6 mi from Lake of the Woods, Arizona. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 8:35 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud reported; visibility 10 mi or more.
48.2 F with a dew point of 41.0 F, 76 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,600 ft up.
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 3 mph: force 1, a light air on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 24 mph.
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Snow on the ground
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.