Kickapoo R @ St HWY 131 At Ontario05407468
At a river or reservoir gauge/10.8 mi away/854 ft/210 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Melvina until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Melvina is 44° and overcast at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 38°. The dew point is 43°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 5 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
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 29°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:18 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:03 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 1 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Melvina, Wisconsin.
Air quality
Index 18, good, led by fine particles. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Driftless Area North (WI), 24 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 16, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.86 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 3 miles Fri 6 AM.
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The 7 instruments nearest Melvina, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.0 miles away.
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Kickapoo R @ St HWY 131 At Ontario05407468
At a river or reservoir gauge/10.8 mi away/854 ft/210 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/10.9 mi away/833 ft/231 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Jackson Pass - I-90 @ 1 mi. W of CTH MTOAW3
Beside a road/12.9 mi away/991 ft/73 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station KB2UHF-8KB2UHF-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/18.7 mi away/1,097 ft/33 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Necedah 5 WNW54903
At a climate reference station/35.1 mi away/933 ft/131 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Cashton 4.8 NWI-MN-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.0 mi away/862 ft/202 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Caston 3NNWCTNW3
At a cooperative observer's station/1.5 mi away/950 ft/114 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 10.9 mi from Melvina, Wisconsin. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 1,600 ft; the ceiling is 1,600 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
49.0 F with a dew point of 44.8 F, 85 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,000 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,600 ft.
From the west northwest (290 degrees) at 9 mph, gusting 21 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 21 mph.
The full report of Sparta/Mccoy AAF, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Caston 3NNW (CTNW3), 1.5 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:57. measured daily
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