East Branch Pecatonica River Nr Blanchardville05433000
At a river or reservoir gauge/16.6 mi away/797 ft/40 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Gratiot until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Gratiot is 52° and light rain at 1 PM. The dew point is 46°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north at 18 mph, gusting to 29 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 44° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:16 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:05 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 3 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 PM in Gratiot, Wisconsin.
Air quality
Index 8, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 PM from its reporting area, Driftless Area South (WI), 31 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 12, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 AM.
Precipitation
0.37 in in the last 24 hours, 0.56 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 7 AM, lowest 9 miles Sat 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Gratiot, WisconsinReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Gratiot, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.5 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
East Branch Pecatonica River Nr Blanchardville05433000
At a river or reservoir gauge/16.6 mi away/797 ft/40 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Beside a road/19.8 mi away/1,076 ft/239 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
PlattevilleS2196
At a soil climate station/20.2 mi away/1,014 ft/177 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
MonroeEFT
At an airfield/22.1 mi away/1,086 ft/249 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW0157GW0157
In a volunteer observer's own ground/34.7 mi away/900 ft/63 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Darlington 4.9 SSEWI-LF-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.5 mi away/946 ft/109 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
DarlingtonDARW3
At a cooperative observer's station/8.5 mi away/820 ft/17 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 22.1 mi from Gratiot, Wisconsin. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 2,800 ft, scattered at 3,300 ft, broken at 4,100 ft; the ceiling is 4,100 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
53.8 F with a dew point of 43.0 F, 67 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,500 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,800 ft.
From the north (10 degrees) at 23 mph, gusting 30 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 31 mph.
The full report of Monroe, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
19 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.