87-IR90 Atb/LakeOH079
Beside a road/3.5 mi away/808 ft/93 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Coming up. Rain is likely this morning, from about 8 AM (52%).
Now. Madison is 71° and mostly cloudy at 5 AM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Gentle breeze from the southwest at 13 mph, gusting to 26 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 52° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 43° by 7 AM, under cloud. Air quality is moderate (index 57): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 66°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 51°. Rain is possible tomorrow (31%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 25 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:42 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:31 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. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 11 hours 6 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 5:00 AM in Madison, Ohio.
Air quality
Index 57, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Cleveland-Akron-Lorain (OH), 32 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 38, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.04 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sun 2 AM, lowest 5 miles Fri 10 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Madison, OhioReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Madison, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
87-IR90 Atb/LakeOH079
Beside a road/3.5 mi away/808 ft/93 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.5 mi away/571 ft/144 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station DW1174DW1174
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.1 mi away/1,307 ft/592 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
WilloughbyLNN
At an airfield/18.1 mi away/619 ft/96 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Madison 0.9 WSWOH-LK-11
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.6 mi away/737 ft/22 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Painesville 4 NWPAIO1
At a cooperative observer's station/12.5 mi away/597 ft/118 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 18.1 mi from Madison, Ohio. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 5:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 2,500 ft, broken at 8,000 ft, overcast at 11,000 ft; the ceiling is 2,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
72.0 F with a dew point of 63.5 F, 75 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,000 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,500 ft.
From the southwest (220 degrees) at 9 mph, gusting 17 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 25 mph.
The full report of Willoughby, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.