Fox River Near New Munster05545750
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.5 mi away/736 ft/22 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for New Munster until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. New Munster is 46° and mostly clear at 8 PM. With the wind it feels like 41°. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north at 10 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 34° by 6 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 70°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 9:57 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 8:00 PM in New Munster, Wisconsin.
Air quality
Index 22, good, led by ozone. Read at 7 PM from its reporting area, Kenosha-Racine Lakeside (WI), 16 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 20, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 PM.
Precipitation
0.07 in in the last 24 hours, 0.73 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 7 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 1 PM, lowest 10 miles Sat 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over New Munster, WisconsinReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest New Munster, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Fox River Near New Munster05545750
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.5 mi away/736 ft/22 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW9847FW9847
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.4 mi away/861 ft/103 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
BurlingtonBUU
At an airfield/9.0 mi away/778 ft/20 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
I-94 EB at 71st StWI074
Beside a road/13.9 mi away/705 ft/53 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Twin Lakes 1.5 NEWI-KN-18
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.7 mi away/791 ft/33 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Pell LakePLLW3
At a cooperative observer's station/6.1 mi away/837 ft/79 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 9.0 mi from New Munster, Wisconsin. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 8:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 4,700 ft, scattered at 5,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
45.0 F with a dew point of 35.6 F, 69 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,100 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 4,700 ft.
From the north (350 degrees) at 6 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 30 mph.
The full report of Burlington, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Pell Lake (PLLW3), 6.1 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:22. 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.