Beside a road/10.4 mi away/1,601 ft/46 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Coming up. Tomorrow is 9 degrees warmer: a high of 56° after 47° today.
Now. Mole Lake is 41° and overcast at 8 AM. With the wind it feels like 33°. The dew point is 40°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north at 15 mph, gusting to 29 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 45° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 29° by 4 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 68°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 27°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:09 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 9:47 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 10 hours 57 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 8:00 AM in Mole Lake, Wisconsin.
Air quality
Index 18, good, led by ozone. Read at 8 AM from its reporting area, Northwoods East (WI), 6 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 18, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.72 in in the last 24 hours, 0.77 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 7 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 7 miles Fri 12 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Mole Lake, WisconsinReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Mole Lake, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Beside a road/10.4 mi away/1,601 ft/46 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
LaonaLAAW3
At a river or reservoir gauge/15.5 mi away/1,575 ft/20 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Wabeno #1S2003
At a soil climate station/19.4 mi away/1,580 ft/25 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
AntigoAIG
At an airfield/23.6 mi away/1,519 ft/36 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Crandon 8.3 SSWWI-FR-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.1 mi away/1,567 ft/12 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Summit LakeSULW3
At a cooperative observer's station/12.3 mi away/1,729 ft/174 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 23.6 mi from Mole Lake, Wisconsin. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 8:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 1,800 ft, overcast at 2,600 ft; the ceiling is 1,800 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
43.0 F with a dew point of 41.0 F, 93 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 500 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,800 ft.
From the north (350 degrees) at 15 mph, gusting 20 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 24 mph.
The full report of Antigo, 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.