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In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.7 mi away/906 ft/35 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Batavia until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Batavia is 52° and overcast at 1 PM. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north at 17 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 43° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 68°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:07 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 9:52 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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 1 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 PM in Batavia, Wisconsin.
Air quality
Index 20, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 PM from its reporting area, Kettle Moraine North (WI), 24 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 16, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 AM.
Precipitation
1.20 in in the last 24 hours, 1.40 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 3 miles Fri 3 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Batavia, WisconsinReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Batavia, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.1 miles away.
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Citizen station FW2905FW2905
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.7 mi away/906 ft/35 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
West BendETB
At an airfield/12.5 mi away/886 ft/15 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Port WashingtonNDBC-PWAW3
At a river or reservoir gauge/17.1 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Beside a road/18.0 mi away/981 ft/110 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Random Lake 0.5 SSEWI-SB-10
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.1 mi away/892 ft/21 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
PlymouthPLYW3
At a cooperative observer's station/11.3 mi away/863 ft/8 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 12.5 mi from Batavia, Wisconsin. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 2,800 ft, broken at 3,400 ft, overcast at 4,000 ft; the ceiling is 3,400 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
51.8 F with a dew point of 41.0 F, 66 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,500 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,800 ft.
From the north (360 degrees) at 13 mph, gusting 18 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 30 mph.
The full report of West Bend, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
19 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.