Fox River Precipitation STN At Rochester424425088133001
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.6 mi away/769 ft/1 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for Browns Lake until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Browns Lake is 54° and overcast at 12 PM. The dew point is 45°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 16 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 45° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 6 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 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:09 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 9:57 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 3 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 PM in Browns Lake, Wisconsin.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 PM from its reporting area, Kenosha-Racine Lakeside (WI), 14 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 20, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 AM.
Precipitation
0.44 in in the last 24 hours, 0.75 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 11 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 7 AM, lowest 9 miles Sat 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Browns Lake, WisconsinReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Browns Lake, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Fox River Precipitation STN At Rochester424425088133001
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.6 mi away/769 ft/1 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
BurlingtonBUU
At an airfield/3.6 mi away/778 ft/10 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW1923FW1923
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.7 mi away/775 ft/7 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
I-43 SB at STH 83WI073
Beside a road/12.1 mi away/814 ft/46 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Burlington 1.4 NEWI-RC-27
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.2 mi away/772 ft/4 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/1.8 mi away/817 ft/49 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 3.6 mi from Browns Lake, Wisconsin. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:35 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 3,100 ft, scattered at 4,200 ft, overcast at 4,800 ft; the ceiling is 4,800 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
55.0 F with a dew point of 45.0 F, 69 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,300 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 3,100 ft.
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 20 mph, gusting 24 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 30 mph.
The full report of Burlington, 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.