At an airfield/11.5 mi away/1,178 ft/39 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Montfort until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Montfort is 48° and overcast at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 43°. The dew point is 46°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 11 mph, gusting to 22 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 12 PM. Tonight falls to about 30° 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 Wednesday, near 70°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 28°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:18 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:05 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 3 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Montfort, Wisconsin.
Air quality
Index 18, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Driftless Area South (WI), 3 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
1.15 in in the last 24 hours, 1.20 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 6 miles Fri 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Montfort, WisconsinReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Montfort, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 8.3 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
At an airfield/11.5 mi away/1,178 ft/39 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Dodgeville 4NDLEW3
At a river or reservoir gauge/15.2 mi away/1,243 ft/104 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Dodgeville - USH 151 @ Brennan Rd.DODW3
Beside a road/16.0 mi away/1,081 ft/58 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
PlattevilleS2196
At a soil climate station/18.8 mi away/1,014 ft/125 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Citizen station EW5990EW5990
In a volunteer observer's own ground/33.3 mi away/1,046 ft/93 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Highland 2.4 NNEWI-IW-9
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.3 mi away/1,205 ft/66 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
DodgevilleDGVW3
At a cooperative observer's station/16.0 mi away/1,188 ft/49 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 15.2 mi from Montfort, Wisconsin. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:11 AM local time: 3 of its 5 sheets.
49.0 F with a dew point of 47.1 F, 93 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 500 ft up.
From the northwest (306 degrees) at 7 mph, gusting 27 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 27 mph.
At 1,243 ft above sea level, 4 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 28.60 inHg and the temperature at 54.6 F; it reports 49.0 F, 5.6 F colder than standard.
The full report of Dodgeville 4N, in 5 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.