Big Eau Pleine River At Stratford05399500
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.9 mi away/1,154 ft/97 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Edgar until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Edgar is 47° and overcast at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 44°. The dew point is 47°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 37° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 29° by 5 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 69°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 27°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:14 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 9:54 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 59 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Edgar, Wisconsin.
Air quality
Index 14, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Central Waters North (WI), 19 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 19, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
1.05 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
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Edgar, WisconsinReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Edgar, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Big Eau Pleine River At Stratford05399500
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.9 mi away/1,154 ft/97 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station DW7529DW7529
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.0 mi away/1,239 ft/12 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Abbotsford - STH 29 3 mi E of AbbotsfrdABBW3
Beside a road/15.1 mi away/1,401 ft/150 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
WausauAUW
At an airfield/16.5 mi away/1,198 ft/53 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Marathon City 0.6 NNEWI-MT-12
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.4 mi away/1,232 ft/19 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Stratford 2NNWSTRW3
At a cooperative observer's station/9.5 mi away/1,230 ft/21 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 16.5 mi from Edgar, Wisconsin. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:54 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 900 ft, broken at 1,400 ft, overcast at 4,800 ft; the ceiling is 900 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
49.0 F with a dew point of 48.0 F, 96 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 200 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 900 ft.
From the west northwest (300 degrees) at 7 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Wausau, 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.