Green Lake Co. E jct. STH 23 at WI US WIDOTWI062
Beside a road/10.0 mi away/853 ft/1 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Markesan until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Markesan is 54° and overcast at 10 PM. The dew point is 53°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the northwest at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 46° by 5 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 70°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 53°. Rain is likely tomorrow (52%). The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 30°.
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 4 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Markesan, Wisconsin.
Air quality
Index 16, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Kettle Moraine North (WI), 26 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 21, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
1.05 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 6 miles Fri 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Markesan, WisconsinReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Markesan, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Green Lake Co. E jct. STH 23 at WI US WIDOTWI062
Beside a road/10.0 mi away/853 ft/1 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Fox River At Princeton04073365
At a river or reservoir gauge/12.4 mi away/755 ft/99 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW0308GW0308
In a volunteer observer's own ground/19.4 mi away/885 ft/31 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
JuneauUNU
At an airfield/24.0 mi away/935 ft/81 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
MarkesanRKNW3
At a cooperative observer's station/0.6 mi away/856 ft/2 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Markesan 4.1 NNWWI-GL-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.4 mi away/918 ft/64 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 24.0 mi from Markesan, Wisconsin. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 600 ft; the ceiling is 600 ft; visibility 7 mi.
54.0 F with a dew point of 54.0 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 600 ft.
From the west (270 degrees) at 10 mph, gusting 17 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 17 mph.
The full report of Juneau, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Markesan (RKNW3), 0.6 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 06:30. 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.