Eau ClaireEAU
At an airfield/16.0 mi away/886 ft/74 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Jim Falls, Wisconsin
Community in Chippewa County, Wisconsin* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures in the upper 20s to lower 30s expected. * WHERE...Portions of central, east central, south central, southeast, and southwest Minnesota and northwest and west central Wisconsin. * WHEN...From 1 AM to 9 AM CDT Saturday. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
45°
51°/38°
Light rain·
Feels like 40°·Gentle breeze 9 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Jim Falls until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely early this morning, from about 3 AM, the chance peaking at 65% around 4 AM.
Now. Jim Falls is 45° and light rain at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 40°. The dew point is 44°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 48° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° by 4 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
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 28°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:19 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 9:59 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 58 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
21Air quality
91%Humidity
94%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
45feels40
38%
Today
Oct 16
5138
92%
17mph
Sat
Oct 17
5828
12mph
Sun
Oct 18
6537
13mph
Mon
Oct 19
6639
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6938
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7145
11%
Thu
Oct 22
7151
25%
45°
51°38°
58°28°
65°37°
66°39°
69°38°
71°45°
71°51°
As of 2:00 AM in Jim Falls, Wisconsin.
Air quality
The air at Jim Falls
Index 21, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Chippewa Valley and Eastern Twin Cities (WI), 28 miles off.
21Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)21Good-
- Ozone14Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)6Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 18, good.
GoodModerate
- 18YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Jim Falls
0.99 in in the last 24 hours, 1.05 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.99in
- Last 3 days
- 1.05in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 94%
Visibility
How far you can see at Jim Falls, the next 42 hours
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 3 miles Fri 4 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Jim Falls, WisconsinReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Jim Falls, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Rank17of 1,313
In a volunteer observer's own ground/16.4 mi away/1,073 ft/113 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Beside a road/17.7 mi away/1,071 ft/111 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Augusta Fire WeatherAFWW3
At a river or reservoir gauge/24.9 mi away/961 ft/1 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Chippewa Falls 5.9 NEWI-CH-20
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.7 mi away/941 ft/19 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Jim Falls 3NWJIMW3
At a cooperative observer's station/3.8 mi away/1,060 ft/100 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Eau Claire, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 16.0 mi from Jim Falls, Wisconsin. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:56 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
Overcast at 1,000 ft; the ceiling is 1,000 ft; visibility 5 mi.
The air
47.0 F with a dew point of 44.0 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 1,000 ft.
The wind
From the west (280 degrees) at 10 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 22 mph.
The full report of Eau Claire, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Wisconsin
19 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Jim Falls
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Lake Wissotacommunity, 9 mi
- Cadottvillage, 9 mi
- Chippewa Fallscity, 9 mi
- Cornellcity, 11 mi
- Bloomercity, 11 mi
- Lake Hallievillage, 12 mi
- Boydvillage, 13 mi
- Holcombecommunity, 15 mi
- Seymourcommunity, 17 mi
- Stanleycity, 17 mi
- New Auburnvillage, 18 mi
- Altoonacity, 18 mi