BurlingtonBUU
At an airfield/3.9 mi away/778 ft/15 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Lyons until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Lyons is 55° and overcast at 12 AM. The dew point is 52°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 10 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 45° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° by 7 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 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:10 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 9:58 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 11 hours 4 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Lyons, Wisconsin.
Air quality
Index 16, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Kettle Moraine South (WI), 19 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 23, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.43 in in the last 24 hours, 0.77 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 12 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Lyons, WisconsinReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Lyons, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
BurlingtonBUU
At an airfield/3.9 mi away/778 ft/15 ft below here
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Fox River Near New Munster05545750
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.2 mi away/736 ft/57 ft below here
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Citizen station FW9847FW9847
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.2 mi away/861 ft/68 ft above here
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Elkhorn - I-43 @ Centralia Ave.EKNW3
Beside a road/8.9 mi away/986 ft/193 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Burlington 3.1 WSWWI-WW-39
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.4 mi away/805 ft/12 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Lake GenevaLGEW3
At a cooperative observer's station/5.5 mi away/885 ft/92 ft above here
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Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 3.9 mi from Lyons, Wisconsin. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 1,600 ft; the ceiling is 1,600 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
55.8 F with a dew point of 51.8 F, 86 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 900 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,600 ft.
From the west (280 degrees) at 12 mph, gusting 18 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 21 mph.
The full report of Burlington, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Lake Geneva (LGEW3), 5.5 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.