SirenRZN
At an airfield/12.2 mi away/988 ft/223 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Frederic until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely early this morning, from about 2 AM, the chance peaking at 65% around 4 AM.
Now. Frederic is 43° and overcast at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 39°. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the northwest at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 48° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 30° by 4 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 68°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 27°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:23 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:01 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 10 hours 57 minutes long, 4 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Frederic, Wisconsin.
Air quality
Index 21, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, East Central Minnesota (MN), 33 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 22, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.81 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 3 miles Fri 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Frederic, WisconsinReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Frederic, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
SirenRZN
At an airfield/12.2 mi away/988 ft/223 ft below here
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Grantsburg - STH 70 west of GrantsburgGRAW3
Beside a road/14.4 mi away/931 ft/280 ft below here
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Lind RAWSLNDW3
A remote fire weather station/16.8 mi away/892 ft/319 ft below here
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Citizen station EW2192EW2192
In a volunteer observer's own ground/18.9 mi away/1,018 ft/193 ft below here
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measured daily2 instruments
Frederic 0.1 NNWWI-PK-27
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.1 mi away/1,213 ft/2 ft above here
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LuckLUCW3
At a cooperative observer's station/6.0 mi away/1,207 ft/4 ft below here
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Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 12.2 mi from Frederic, Wisconsin. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 700 ft; the ceiling is 700 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
46.4 F with a dew point of 46.4 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 700 ft.
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 9 mph, gusting 16 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 16 mph.
The full report of Siren, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Luck (LUCW3), 6.0 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 16:22. 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.