Menomonie WILUM
At an airfield/8.6 mi away/896 ft/104 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Downsville until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely tomorrow morning, from about 5 AM, the chance peaking at 64% around 6 AM.
Now. Downsville is 47° and overcast at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 43°. The dew point is 46°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 8 mph, gusting to 25 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 43° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 52°. Rain is likely tomorrow (94%). The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 31°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 11 hours 1 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Downsville, Wisconsin.
Air quality
Index 14, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Chippewa Valley and Eastern Twin Cities (WI), 10 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 16, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
1.25 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 5 miles Fri 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Downsville, WisconsinReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Downsville, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Menomonie WILUM
At an airfield/8.6 mi away/896 ft/104 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
EAU GALLE RIVER AT Spring ValleySVPW3
At a river or reservoir gauge/16.2 mi away/928 ft/136 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW9093FW9093
In a volunteer observer's own ground/18.7 mi away/958 ft/166 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Eau Claire - I-94 @ USH 53ECRW3
Beside a road/24.8 mi away/881 ft/89 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Menomonie 10.2 SSEWI-DN-9
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.3 mi away/830 ft/38 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
MenomonieMEMW3
At a cooperative observer's station/6.8 mi away/781 ft/11 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 8.6 mi from Downsville, Wisconsin. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:35 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 700 ft, broken at 1,500 ft, overcast at 2,200 ft; the ceiling is 1,500 ft; visibility 5 mi.
48.7 F with a dew point of 48.7 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 700 ft.
From the west (280 degrees) at 7 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Menomonie WI, 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.