Milwaukee Northwest - USH 45 @ Mill Rd.WI019
Beside a road/2.3 mi away/760 ft/100 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Menomonee Falls until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Menomonee Falls is 54° and overcast at 12 AM. The dew point is 54°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the west-northwest at 16 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 45° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. 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 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:08 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 9:54 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 2 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Milwaukee-Ozaukee (WI), 8 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 26, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.57 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 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 Menomonee Falls, WisconsinReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Menomonee Falls, 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 now4 instruments
Milwaukee Northwest - USH 45 @ Mill Rd.WI019
Beside a road/2.3 mi away/760 ft/100 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station FW6268FW6268
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.0 mi away/860 ft/level with here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/4.9 mi away/735 ft/125 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
West AllisWETW3
At a river or reservoir gauge/11.0 mi away/738 ft/122 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Menomonee Falls 1.3 ENEWI-WK-146
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/844 ft/16 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
GermantownGERW3
At a cooperative observer's station/3.8 mi away/846 ft/14 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 4.9 mi from Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 1,100 ft; the ceiling is 1,100 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
53.6 F with a dew point of 53.6 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,100 ft.
From the west (280 degrees) at 20 mph, gusting 25 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 25 mph.
The full report of Milwaukee/Lawren, 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.