128-US 20 @ Slm 1.5OH118
Beside a road/3.6 mi away/985 ft/26 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Nettle Lake until 9 AM Sunday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Nettle Lake is 48° and partly cloudy at 9 PM. With the wind it feels like 43°. The dew point is 40°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north at 10 mph, gusting to 27 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 34° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 70°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 53°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 33°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:47 PM. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. 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 5 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Nettle Lake, Ohio.
Air quality
Index 18, good, led by ozone. Read at 8 PM from its reporting area, Jackson (MI), 30 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 22, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 2 PM.
Precipitation
0.21 in in the last 24 hours, 1.20 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 2 PM, lowest 9 miles Sun 2 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Nettle Lake, OhioReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Nettle Lake, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
128-US 20 @ Slm 1.5OH118
Beside a road/3.6 mi away/985 ft/26 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Rain gage at Powers413934084145700
At a river or reservoir gauge/24.6 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station CW9767CW9767
In a volunteer observer's own ground/27.9 mi away/777 ft/182 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
DefianceDFI
At an airfield/28.0 mi away/719 ft/240 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Pioneer 2.3 SOH-WL-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.2 mi away/874 ft/85 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
MontpelierMOPO1
At a cooperative observer's station/9.2 mi away/866 ft/93 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 28.0 mi from Nettle Lake, Ohio. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 8:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 7,500 ft; the ceiling is 7,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
50.0 F with a dew point of 45.0 F, 83 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,200 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 7,500 ft.
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 10 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 33 mph.
The full report of Defiance, 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.