Mississippi River AT Alma Dam 4ALMW3
At a dam/15.6 mi away/738 ft/51 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Gilmanton until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely this morning, from about 5 AM, the chance peaking at 61% around 6 AM.
Now. Gilmanton is 47° and overcast at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 43°. The dew point is 44°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 9 mph, gusting to 19 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 49° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 4 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:21 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:03 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 59 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Gilmanton, Wisconsin.
Air quality
Index 15, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Mississippi River Valley (MN), 30 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 13, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.86 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 4 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 5 miles Fri 7 AM.
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The 6 instruments nearest Gilmanton, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.9 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Mississippi River AT Alma Dam 4ALMW3
At a dam/15.6 mi away/738 ft/51 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW9093FW9093
In a volunteer observer's own ground/20.2 mi away/958 ft/169 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Arcadia - STH 93ACDW3
Beside a road/21.1 mi away/1,241 ft/452 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Eau ClaireEAU
At an airfield/28.8 mi away/886 ft/97 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Mondovi 8.8 SSEWI-BF-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.9 mi away/869 ft/80 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
MondoviMDIW3
At a cooperative observer's station/6.4 mi away/804 ft/15 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 28.8 mi from Gilmanton, Wisconsin. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:56 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 1,000 ft, overcast at 1,400 ft; the ceiling is 1,000 ft; visibility 7 mi.
48.0 F with a dew point of 46.0 F, 93 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 500 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,000 ft.
From the west (280 degrees) at 9 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 21 mph.
The full report of Eau Claire, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Mississippi River AT Alma Dam 4 (ALMW3), 15.6 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.