Citizen station EW5990EW5990
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.8 mi away/1,046 ft/196 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Mount Horeb until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Mount Horeb is 52° and overcast at 10 PM. The dew point is 53°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 43° by 7 AM, under cloud. 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 53°. Rain is possible tomorrow (44%). The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 29°.
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 5 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin.
Air quality
Index 8, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Madison Area (WI), 16 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
0.68 in in the last 24 hours, 0.73 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Mount Horeb, WisconsinReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Mount Horeb, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Citizen station EW5990EW5990
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.8 mi away/1,046 ft/196 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Channel at Blue Harvest Ln at Madison430219089335301
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.8 mi away/1,034 ft/208 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
MiddletonC29
At an airfield/12.6 mi away/925 ft/317 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Dodgeville - USH 151 @ Brennan Rd.DODW3
Beside a road/19.9 mi away/1,081 ft/161 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
PlattevilleS2196
At a soil climate station/39.1 mi away/1,014 ft/228 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Mount Horeb 0.5 SWWI-DA-221
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.4 mi away/1,209 ft/33 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Mt HorebMRBW3
At a cooperative observer's station/1.8 mi away/1,073 ft/169 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 12.6 mi from Mount Horeb, Wisconsin. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 1,000 ft, overcast at 1,400 ft; the ceiling is 1,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
54.0 F with a dew point of 53.2 F, 97 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 200 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,000 ft.
From the west northwest (290 degrees) at 13 mph, gusting 17 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 22 mph.
The full report of Middleton, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Mt Horeb (MRBW3), 1.8 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. 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.