Mt. Sterling - STH 27 1 mi S Mt StrlingMTSW3
Beside a road/8.7 mi away/1,196 ft/332 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Ferryville until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Ferryville is 48° and overcast at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 43°. The dew point is 47°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 11 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 43° by 8 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. Rain is likely tomorrow (62%). The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 29°.
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. The day is 11 hours 5 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Ferryville, Wisconsin.
Air quality
Index 13, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Driftless Area South (WI), 46 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 26, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.74 in in the last 24 hours, 0.80 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 4 miles Fri 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Ferryville, WisconsinReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Ferryville, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 8.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Mt. Sterling - STH 27 1 mi S Mt StrlingMTSW3
Beside a road/8.7 mi away/1,196 ft/332 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Mississippi River AT Lynxville Dam 9LYNW3
At a dam/9.9 mi away/633 ft/231 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW0356GW0356
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.7 mi away/1,132 ft/268 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
ViroquaY51
At an airfield/18.5 mi away/1,283 ft/419 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
De Soto 5.8 NEWI-VR-14
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.0 mi away/1,163 ft/299 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Lynxville Dam 9LYNW3
At a dam/9.9 mi away/636 ft/228 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 9.9 mi from Ferryville, Wisconsin. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:15 PM local time: 3 of its 3 sheets.
At 633 ft above sea level, 2 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 29.24 inHg and the temperature at 56.7 F.
On Oct 16 the noon sun stands 38 degrees above the horizon at 43.21 N, and the day is 10 h 51 min long. Level ground there takes 61 per cent of the noon sunlight a surface facing the sun would.
A data collection platform, 633 ft above sea level. Its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:15 PM local time is written on the sensors that made it.
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Mississippi River AT Lynxville Dam 9 (LYNW3), 9.9 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.