In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.0 mi away/686 ft/42 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for Elmwood Park until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Elmwood Park is 50° and overcast at 5 AM. The dew point is 47°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the west-northwest at 14 mph, gusting to 25 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 55° by 11 AM. Tonight falls to about 37° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 67°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:08 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 9:55 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 11 hours 4 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 5:00 AM in Elmwood Park, Wisconsin.
Air quality
Index 14, good, led by ozone. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Kenosha-Racine Lakeside (WI), 6 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 20, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.50 in in the last 24 hours, 0.60 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 9 miles Fri 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Elmwood Park, WisconsinReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Elmwood Park, 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
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.0 mi away/686 ft/42 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
RacineRAC
At an airfield/4.8 mi away/666 ft/22 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Kenosha LightKNSW3
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.1 mi away/577 ft/67 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
I-94 EB at 71st StWI074
Beside a road/10.6 mi away/705 ft/61 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Racine 2.5 SSWWI-RC-50
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/641 ft/3 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
RacineRCNW3
At a cooperative observer's station/2.9 mi away/574 ft/70 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 4.8 mi from Elmwood Park, Wisconsin. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 1,900 ft; the ceiling is 1,900 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
51.0 F with a dew point of 47.0 F, 86 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 900 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,900 ft.
From the west northwest (290 degrees) at 14 mph, gusting 25 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 33 mph.
The full report of Racine, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Racine (RCNW3), 2.9 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
19 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.