Beside a road/9.7 mi away/1,601 ft/33 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Coming up. Rain is likely tonight, from about 11 PM (88%).
Now. Elcho is 46° and light rain at 11 PM. The dew point is 45°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north-northwest at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 40° by 7 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 68°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 48°. Rain is likely tomorrow (89%). The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 26°.
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 0 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Elcho, Wisconsin.
Air quality
Index 18, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Northwoods East (WI), 14 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 20, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.61 in in the last 24 hours, 0.64 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 4 miles Thu 11 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Elcho, WisconsinReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Elcho, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Beside a road/9.7 mi away/1,601 ft/33 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Discovery Farms Waterway AO3 Near Antigo451337089035401
At a river or reservoir gauge/15.7 mi away/1,550 ft/84 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
RhinelanderRHI
At an airfield/19.1 mi away/1,591 ft/43 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Wabeno #1S2003
At a soil climate station/29.2 mi away/1,580 ft/54 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Summit LakeSULW3
At a cooperative observer's station/4.0 mi away/1,729 ft/95 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Elcho 4.8 SWWI-LG-9
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.0 mi away/1,737 ft/103 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 19.1 mi from Elcho, Wisconsin. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
A few clouds at 400 ft, overcast at 4,600 ft; the ceiling is 4,600 ft; visibility 9 mi.
46.0 F with a dew point of 45.0 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 400 ft.
Calm.
The full report of Rhinelander, 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.