STH 28 at CTH KKWI077
Beside a road/7.6 mi away/965 ft/13 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Fairwater until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Fairwater is 51° and overcast at 12 AM. The dew point is 51°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 11 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 42° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 70°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:11 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 1 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Fairwater, Wisconsin.
Air quality
Index 14, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Kettle Moraine North (WI), 22 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 21, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
1.00 in in the last 24 hours, 1.05 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 4 miles Fri 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Fairwater, WisconsinReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Fairwater, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
STH 28 at CTH KKWI077
Beside a road/7.6 mi away/965 ft/13 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Fox River At Princeton04073365
At a river or reservoir gauge/15.2 mi away/755 ft/197 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Fond Du LacFLD
At an airfield/19.1 mi away/787 ft/165 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW0308GW0308
In a volunteer observer's own ground/20.2 mi away/885 ft/67 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Markesan 5.7 EWI-DL-15
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.5 mi away/949 ft/3 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
MarkesanRKNW3
At a cooperative observer's station/7.0 mi away/856 ft/96 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 19.1 mi from Fairwater, Wisconsin. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 500 ft; the ceiling is 500 ft; visibility 5 mi.
53.0 F with a dew point of 52.0 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 500 ft.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 8 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Fond Du Lac, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Markesan (RKNW3), 7.0 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 06:30. 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.