Black River Falls - I-94 @ Sandcut HillBRVW3
Beside a road/5.8 mi away/1,091 ft/169 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Hixton until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Hixton is 48° and overcast at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 43°. The dew point is 47°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 42° by 4 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 52°. Rain is likely tomorrow (79%). The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 26°.
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 2 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Hixton, Wisconsin.
Air quality
Index 12, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Driftless Area North (WI), 20 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 14, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.85 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 7 miles Thu 10 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Hixton, WisconsinReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Hixton, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Black River Falls - I-94 @ Sandcut HillBRVW3
Beside a road/5.8 mi away/1,091 ft/169 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
A remote fire weather station/10.5 mi away/823 ft/99 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/12.0 mi away/830 ft/92 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW6551FW6551
In a volunteer observer's own ground/32.5 mi away/897 ft/25 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Hixton 0.2 NWI-JK-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.2 mi away/934 ft/12 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/10.1 mi away/768 ft/154 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 12.0 mi from Hixton, Wisconsin. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 1,100 ft; the ceiling is 1,100 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
48.6 F with a dew point of 48.4 F, 99 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 100 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,100 ft.
From the west northwest (300 degrees) at 8 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 17 mph.
The full report of Black River Falls, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Black River Falls Sewage (BLKW3), 10.1 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:30. 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.