Abbotsford - STH 29 3 mi E of AbbotsfrdABBW3
Beside a road/3.3 mi away/1,401 ft/50 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Colby, Wisconsin
City in Clark County, Wisconsin* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures ranging from the mid-20s to lower 30s. * WHERE...Portions of north central and northeast Iowa, southeast Minnesota, and central, north central, southwest, and west central Wisconsin. * WHEN...From 1 AM to 9 AM CDT Saturday. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
32°
49°/37°
Clear·
Feels like 32°·Light air 1 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Colby until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Colby is 32° and clear at 11 PM. The dew point is 30°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the northwest at 1 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 29° by 5 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 70°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 27°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 35% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south. 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 10 hours 58 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
7Air quality
93%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
32feels32
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
4937
21%
19mph
Sat
Oct 17
5527
14mph
Sun
Oct 18
6135
14mph
Mon
Oct 19
6336
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6538
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
6742
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7047
overcast
32°
49°37°
55°27°
61°35°
63°36°
65°38°
67°42°
70°47°
As of 11:00 PM in Colby, Wisconsin.
Air quality
The air at Colby
Index 7, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Central Waters North (WI), 29 miles off.
7Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)7Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 11, good.
GoodModerate
- 11YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
- GoodMonOct 19
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Colby
0.06 in in the last 24 hours, 1.00 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.06in
- Last 3 days
- 1.00in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 6%
Visibility
How far you can see at Colby, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 7 PM, lowest 10 miles Sat 11 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Colby, WisconsinReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Colby, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Rank853of 1,353
Discovery Farms Waterway MT3 Near Milan445557090090601
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.3 mi away/1,345 ft/6 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW4269GW4269
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.0 mi away/1,442 ft/91 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
MedfordMDZ
At an airfield/13.1 mi away/1,470 ft/119 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Abbotsford 0.4 SSWWI-CK-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.2 mi away/1,411 ft/60 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Spencer-WWTPSPCW3
At a water treatment plant/11.0 mi away/1,289 ft/62 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Medford, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 13.1 mi from Colby, Wisconsin. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 11:35 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
30.6 F with a dew point of 30.6 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground.
The wind
Calm.
The full report of Medford, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Spencer-WWTP (SPCW3), 11.0 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 07:30. measured daily
Elsewhere in Wisconsin
19 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Colby
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Abbotsfordcity, 3 mi
- Unityvillage, 4 mi
- Curtissvillage, 6 mi
- Dorchestervillage, 6 mi
- Spencervillage, 11 mi
- Stetsonvillevillage, 11 mi
- Owencity, 12 mi
- Witheevillage, 14 mi
- Stratfordvillage, 14 mi
- Athensvillage, 14 mi
- Loyalcity, 15 mi
- Fenwoodvillage, 15 mi