In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.5 mi away/122 ft/45 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Now. Madison is 70° and clear at 11 PM. The dew point is 66°, so the air feels oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 65° by 6 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 88°, and the coolest Sunday, near 68°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. 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. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 28 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Madison, Florida.
Air quality
Index 44, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Hamilton County (FL), 28 miles off.
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 44, good.
Smoke near the ground peaks at index 73, moderate, Fri 1 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Madison, FloridaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 4 instruments nearest Madison, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.7 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.5 mi away/122 ft/45 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Live Oak24J
At an airfield/26.1 mi away/118 ft/49 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Madison 3.5 ENEFL-MS-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.7 mi away/121 ft/46 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/23.0 mi away/66 ft/101 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 26.1 mi from Madison, Florida. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
A few clouds at 5,000 ft, a few clouds at 5,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
69.8 F with a dew point of 66.2 F, 88 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 900 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 5,000 ft.
Calm.
The full report of Live Oak, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
25 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.