Kickapoo R @ St HWY 131 At Ontario05407468
At a river or reservoir gauge/13.3 mi away/854 ft/151 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Hillsboro until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Hillsboro is 48° and overcast at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 42°. The dew point is 47°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 13 mph, gusting to 25 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 43° by 4 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 52°. Rain is possible tomorrow (44%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 28°.
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 4 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Hillsboro, Wisconsin.
Air quality
Index 10, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Central Waters South (WI), 37 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 22, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.70 in in the last 24 hours, 0.73 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Hillsboro, WisconsinReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Hillsboro, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.2 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Kickapoo R @ St HWY 131 At Ontario05407468
At a river or reservoir gauge/13.3 mi away/854 ft/151 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Lisbon Union82C
At an airfield/16.4 mi away/890 ft/115 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW6192FW6192
In a volunteer observer's own ground/17.3 mi away/881 ft/124 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Jackson Pass - I-90 @ 1 mi. W of CTH MTOAW3
Beside a road/23.5 mi away/991 ft/14 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Necedah 5 WNW54903
At a climate reference station/29.4 mi away/933 ft/72 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Hillsboro 2SWHLBW3
At a cooperative observer's station/2.2 mi away/1,029 ft/24 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Wonewoc 2.0 SSWWI-SK-25
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.6 mi away/947 ft/58 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 16.4 mi from Hillsboro, Wisconsin. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 1,300 ft; the ceiling is 1,300 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
50.5 F with a dew point of 47.5 F, 89 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 700 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,300 ft.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 13 mph, gusting 22 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 29 mph.
The full report of Lisbon Union, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Hillsboro 2SW (HLBW3), 2.2 miles from here, read 15 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.