Nekoosa-6Se Dnr AutomatedNKAW3
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.0 mi away/1,004 ft/4 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Lake Arrowhead until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely tonight, from about 10 PM (77%).
Now. Lake Arrowhead is 50° and overcast at 10 PM. The dew point is 49°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the northwest at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 44° by 7 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 53°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 27°.
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 3 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Lake Arrowhead, Wisconsin.
Air quality
Index 10, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Central Waters South (WI), 32 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
1.10 in in the last 24 hours, 1.15 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 6 miles Thu 10 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Lake Arrowhead, WisconsinReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Lake Arrowhead, 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 now5 instruments
Nekoosa-6Se Dnr AutomatedNKAW3
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.0 mi away/1,004 ft/4 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/11.0 mi away/1,007 ft/7 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station EW3989EW3989
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.1 mi away/1,033 ft/33 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Necedah 5 WNW54903
At a climate reference station/19.4 mi away/933 ft/67 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Coloma - I-39 @ Czech Ave.CMAW3
Beside a road/21.8 mi away/961 ft/39 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Nekoosa 8.8 SSEWI-AD-20
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/1,020 ft/20 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Port EdwardsNEPW3
At a cooperative observer's station/9.9 mi away/981 ft/19 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 11.0 mi from Lake Arrowhead, Wisconsin. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 9:54 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
A few clouds at 700 ft, scattered at 1,700 ft, overcast at 2,100 ft; the ceiling is 2,100 ft; visibility 9 mi.
50.0 F with a dew point of 49.0 F, 96 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 200 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 700 ft.
From the north northwest (330 degrees) at 8 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 17 mph.
The full report of Wisconsin Rapids, 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.