Portage Co. USH 10 EB at Wiscons WI US WIDOTWI061
Beside a road/5.7 mi away/1,099 ft/58 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Junction City until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Junction City is 48° and overcast at 11 AM. With the wind it feels like 42°. The dew point is 40°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north at 16 mph, gusting to 29 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 39° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 30° by 4 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 69°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 29°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:13 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 9:55 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 11:00 AM in Junction City, Wisconsin.
Air quality
Index 6, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 AM from its reporting area, Central Waters North (WI), 7 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 11, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 AM.
Precipitation
1.35 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 10 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 7 AM, lowest 8 miles Sat 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Junction City, WisconsinReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Junction City, 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 now4 instruments
Portage Co. USH 10 EB at Wiscons WI US WIDOTWI061
Beside a road/5.7 mi away/1,099 ft/58 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/12.0 mi away/1,109 ft/48 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station EW7537EW7537
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.3 mi away/1,098 ft/59 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Mosinee 2SEMNEW3
At a river or reservoir gauge/12.8 mi away/1,237 ft/80 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Milladore 1.9 SWI-WD-14
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.5 mi away/1,159 ft/2 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Big Eau Pleine River AT Eau Pleine ReservoirEPLW3
At a reservoir/8.9 mi away/1,135 ft/22 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 12.0 mi from Junction City, Wisconsin. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 10:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 2,200 ft, broken at 2,900 ft, overcast at 3,400 ft; the ceiling is 2,900 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
49.5 F with a dew point of 40.3 F, 70 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,100 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,200 ft.
From the north (360 degrees) at 18 mph, gusting 29 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 29 mph.
The full report of Stevens Point, 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.