In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.1 mi away/1,073 ft/131 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Colfax, Wisconsin
Village in Dunn County, Wisconsin* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures possible. * WHERE...Portions of central, east central, south central, southeast, southwest, and west central Minnesota and northwest and west central Wisconsin. * WHEN...From late Friday night through Saturday morning. * 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.
46°
51°/40°
Overcast·
Feels like 41°·Gentle breeze 10 mph WNW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Colfax until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely early this morning, from about 4 AM, the chance peaking at 64% around 6 AM.
Now. Colfax is 46° and overcast at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 41°. The dew point is 45°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 10 mph, gusting to 21 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 48° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 3 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:20 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:01 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 10 hours 57 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
16Air quality
100%Humidity
97%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
46feels41
16%
Today
Oct 16
5140
94%
19mph
Sat
Oct 17
5930
14mph
Sun
Oct 18
6639
15mph
Mon
Oct 19
6641
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6940
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7147
13%
Thu
Oct 22
7153
25%
46°
51°40°
59°30°
66°39°
66°41°
69°40°
71°47°
71°53°
As of 12:00 AM in Colfax, Wisconsin.
Air quality
The air at Colfax
Index 16, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Chippewa Valley and Eastern Twin Cities (WI), 8 miles off.
16Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)16Good22.3 mi
- Ozone14Good12 ppb22.3 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)5Good22.3 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 16, good.
GoodModerate
- 16YesterdayOct 14
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Colfax
0.86 in in the last 24 hours, 0.94 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.86in
- Last 3 days
- 0.94in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 91%
Visibility
How far you can see at Colfax, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 5 miles Fri 5 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Colfax, WisconsinReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Colfax, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Rank1,187of 1,313
Menomonie WILUM
At an airfield/10.1 mi away/896 ft/46 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Beside a road/21.3 mi away/1,051 ft/109 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
EAU GALLE RIVER AT Spring ValleySVPW3
At a river or reservoir gauge/27.0 mi away/928 ft/14 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Colfax 0.4 NEWI-DN-16
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/945 ft/3 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/9.1 mi away/824 ft/118 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Menomonie WI, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 10.1 mi from Colfax, Wisconsin. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
Overcast at 1,500 ft; the ceiling is 1,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
47.5 F with a dew point of 47.5 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,500 ft.
The wind
From the west northwest (290 degrees) at 13 mph, gusting 17 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 25 mph.
The full report of Menomonie WI, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Wisconsin
19 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Colfax
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Tainter Lakecommunity, 7 mi
- Elk Moundvillage, 9 mi
- Wheelervillage, 10 mi
- Menomoniecity, 13 mi
- Bloomercity, 13 mi
- Boycevillevillage, 16 mi
- New Auburnvillage, 16 mi
- Ridgelandvillage, 17 mi
- Chippewa Fallscity, 17 mi
- Lake Hallievillage, 17 mi
- Eau Clairecity, 17 mi
- Knappvillage, 18 mi