Kickapoo R @ St HWY 131 At Ontario05407468
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.2 mi away/854 ft/168 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Norwalk until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely this morning, from about 7 AM (50%).
Now. Norwalk is 47° and overcast at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 41°. The dew point is 46°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 49° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° by 5 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 27°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:17 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:02 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 0 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Norwalk, Wisconsin.
Air quality
Index 15, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Driftless Area North (WI), 27 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 14, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.90 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 4 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 5 miles Fri 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Norwalk, WisconsinReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Norwalk, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.0 miles away.
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Kickapoo R @ St HWY 131 At Ontario05407468
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.2 mi away/854 ft/168 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Jackson Pass - I-90 @ 1 mi. W of CTH MTOAW3
Beside a road/7.5 mi away/991 ft/31 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/10.5 mi away/833 ft/189 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station KB2UHF-8KB2UHF-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/20.5 mi away/1,097 ft/75 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Necedah 5 WNW54903
At a climate reference station/27.5 mi away/933 ft/89 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Norwalk 4.9 NNEWI-MN-16
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.0 mi away/1,095 ft/73 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
OntarioONTW3
At a cooperative observer's station/7.8 mi away/899 ft/123 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 10.5 mi from Norwalk, Wisconsin. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 1,200 ft; the ceiling is 1,200 ft; visibility 9 mi.
50.0 F with a dew point of 47.0 F, 89 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 700 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,200 ft.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 9 mph, gusting 18 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 23 mph.
The full report of Sparta/Mccoy AAF, 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.