Mt. Sterling - STH 27 1 mi S Mt StrlingMTSW3
Beside a road/5.6 mi away/1,196 ft/483 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Bell Center until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Bell Center is 48° and mostly cloudy at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 43°. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 10 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 12 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 28°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:19 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:05 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 2 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Bell Center, Wisconsin.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Driftless Area South (WI), 33 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 12, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.83 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 5 miles Fri 10 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Bell Center, WisconsinReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Bell Center, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Mt. Sterling - STH 27 1 mi S Mt StrlingMTSW3
Beside a road/5.6 mi away/1,196 ft/483 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW0356GW0356
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.9 mi away/1,132 ft/419 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
BoscobelOVS
At an airfield/12.0 mi away/663 ft/50 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Boscobel 1 NEBBLW3
At a river or reservoir gauge/12.2 mi away/666 ft/47 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Gays MillsGMIW3
At a cooperative observer's station/2.0 mi away/705 ft/8 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Gays Mills 0.4 SEWI-CR-11
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.0 mi away/702 ft/11 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 12.0 mi from Bell Center, Wisconsin. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
A few clouds at 2,500 ft, scattered at 4,900 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
49.0 F with a dew point of 42.0 F, 77 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,600 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,500 ft.
From the west northwest (290 degrees) at 10 mph, gusting 18 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 24 mph.
The full report of Boscobel, 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.