At an airfield/9.3 mi away/807 ft/19 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Footville until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Footville is 56° and overcast at 10 PM. The dew point is 54°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the west-northwest at 14 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 44° by 7 AM, under cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 30°.
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 6 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Footville, Wisconsin.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Rockford (IL), 25 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 27, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.56 in in the last 24 hours, 0.91 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Footville, WisconsinReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Footville, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/9.3 mi away/807 ft/19 ft below here
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Sugar River Near Brodhead05436500
At a river or reservoir gauge/10.4 mi away/768 ft/58 ft below here
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In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.5 mi away/877 ft/51 ft above here
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I-39 / 90 at STH 26WI089
Beside a road/11.7 mi away/915 ft/89 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Brodhead 6.2 NEWI-RK-32
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.8 mi away/996 ft/170 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
BrodheadBROW3
At a cooperative observer's station/9.9 mi away/782 ft/44 ft below here
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Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 9.3 mi from Footville, Wisconsin. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 1,300 ft, scattered at 1,800 ft, overcast at 4,000 ft; the ceiling is 4,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
55.4 F with a dew point of 53.6 F, 94 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 400 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,300 ft.
From the west northwest (290 degrees) at 16 mph, gusting 23 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 23 mph.
The full report of Janesville/Rock, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Brodhead (BROW3), 9.9 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 06:00. 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.