At an airfield/7.3 mi away/899 ft/50 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Oakdale until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Oakdale is 47° and overcast at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 41°. The dew point is 45°, 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 11 AM. 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 Thursday, 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 6:16 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Oakdale, Wisconsin.
Air quality
Index 14, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Driftless Area North (WI), 34 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
0.97 in in the last 24 hours, 1.00 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 4 miles Fri 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Oakdale, WisconsinReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Oakdale, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.3 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
At an airfield/7.3 mi away/899 ft/50 ft below here
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Beside a road/7.3 mi away/991 ft/42 ft above here
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Citizen station FW6192FW6192
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.3 mi away/881 ft/68 ft below here
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Necedah 5WNWNCHW3
At a river or reservoir gauge/12.5 mi away/919 ft/30 ft below here
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Necedah 5 WNW54903
At a climate reference station/12.7 mi away/933 ft/16 ft below here
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measured daily2 instruments
At a fire lookout or ranger station/4.3 mi away/958 ft/9 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Tomah 0.6 NEWI-MN-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.1 mi away/958 ft/9 ft above here
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Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 7.3 mi from Oakdale, Wisconsin. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 1,000 ft; the ceiling is 1,000 ft.
49.6 F with a dew point of 46.8 F, 90 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 600 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,000 ft.
From the west (280 degrees) at 17 mph, gusting 23 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 30 mph.
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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.