Mississippi River AT Alma Dam 4ALMW3
At a dam/7.2 mi away/738 ft/70 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Buffalo City until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely this morning, from about 7 AM (68%).
Now. Buffalo City is 47° and mostly cloudy at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 42°. The dew point is 43°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 11 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:22 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 0 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Buffalo City, Wisconsin.
Air quality
Index 15, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Mississippi River Valley (MN), 12 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 13, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.91 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 2 miles Fri 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Buffalo City, WisconsinReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Buffalo City, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Mississippi River AT Alma Dam 4ALMW3
At a dam/7.2 mi away/738 ft/70 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Arcadia - STH 93ACDW3
Beside a road/19.8 mi away/1,241 ft/573 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW7375GW7375
In a volunteer observer's own ground/38.4 mi away/712 ft/44 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
La CrosseLSE
At an airfield/38.7 mi away/650 ft/18 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Cochrane 0.6 ESEWI-BF-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.8 mi away/722 ft/54 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 38.7 mi from Buffalo City, Wisconsin. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 1,600 ft; the ceiling is 1,600 ft; visibility 9 mi.
50.0 F with a dew point of 46.0 F, 86 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 900 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,600 ft.
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 22 mph, gusting 31 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 37 mph.
The full report of La Crosse, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Mississippi River AT Alma Dam 4 (ALMW3), 7.2 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
19 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.