In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/978 ft/39 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Hartford until 9 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Hartford is 38° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 30°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the north-northwest at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 54° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 39° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 70°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 61°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:07 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 10:56 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 Hartford, Wisconsin.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Kettle Moraine North (WI), 16 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 16, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.09 in in the last 24 hours, 0.74 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Hartford, WisconsinReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Hartford, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/978 ft/39 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Jackson - USH 45 @ STH 60JAKW3
Beside a road/9.5 mi away/896 ft/121 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
West BendETB
At an airfield/14.4 mi away/886 ft/131 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Pewaukee WWTPPWKW3
At a water treatment plant/18.1 mi away/912 ft/105 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Hartford 1.7 ESEWI-WS-17
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.9 mi away/1,052 ft/35 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
HartfordHARW3
At a cooperative observer's station/1.2 mi away/1,020 ft/3 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 14.4 mi from Hartford, Wisconsin. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 11:35 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
37.4 F with a dew point of 30.2 F, 75 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,600 ft up.
Calm.
The full report of West Bend, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Hartford (HARW3), 1.2 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 07:00. 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.