Citizen station DW1684DW1684
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.7 mi away/863 ft/41 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Now. Bear Lake is 54° and overcast at 7 AM. The dew point is 52°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the west-northwest at 15 mph, gusting to 29 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 56° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 35° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:51 PM. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. 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 6 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 7:00 AM in Bear Lake, Indiana.
Air quality
Index 16, good, led by fine particles. Read at 7 AM from its reporting area, Fort Wayne (IN), 25 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 32, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM.
Precipitation
0.19 in in the last 24 hours, 0.53 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 6 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 2 AM, lowest 8 miles Sun 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Bear Lake, IndianaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Bear Lake, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.9 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station DW1684DW1684
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.7 mi away/863 ft/41 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Nb Elkhart River At Cosperville04100222
At a river or reservoir gauge/10.9 mi away/880 ft/24 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
KendallvilleC62
At an airfield/16.9 mi away/999 ft/95 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Fort WayneIN003
Beside a road/24.4 mi away/798 ft/106 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Albion 8.2 SWIN-NB-17
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.9 mi away/912 ft/8 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Northern Indiana WfoIWXI3
At a cooperative observer's station/9.9 mi away/932 ft/28 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 16.9 mi from Bear Lake, Indiana. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 7:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 1,500 ft; the ceiling is 1,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
53.6 F with a dew point of 50.4 F, 89 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 700 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,500 ft.
From the west northwest (300 degrees) at 8 mph, gusting 20 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 32 mph.
The full report of Kendallville, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Northern Indiana Wfo (IWXI3), 9.9 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 02:00. measured daily
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.