At an airfield/12.5 mi away/1,480 ft/65 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Coming up. Rain is likely early this morning, from about 12 AM (56%).
Now. Prentice is 44° and overcast at 12 AM. The dew point is 44°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the northwest at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 35° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 28° by 3 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 68°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 25°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:14 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 9:52 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 10 hours 56 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Prentice, Wisconsin.
Air quality
Index 13, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Northwoods West (WI), 54 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
0.57 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 3 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Prentice, WisconsinReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Prentice, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/12.5 mi away/1,480 ft/65 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Spirit River At Spirit Falls05393500
At a river or reservoir gauge/16.4 mi away/1,462 ft/83 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station EW9253EW9253
In a volunteer observer's own ground/19.1 mi away/1,528 ft/17 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Fifield - STH 13 south of FifieldFIFW3
Beside a road/22.5 mi away/1,451 ft/94 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
PrenticePRNW3
At a cooperative observer's station/0.3 mi away/1,539 ft/6 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Prentice 2.5 ESEWI-PR-21
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.7 mi away/1,563 ft/18 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 12.5 mi from Prentice, Wisconsin. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 700 ft, overcast at 1,300 ft; the ceiling is 700 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
45.5 F with a dew point of 45.5 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 700 ft.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 5 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Phillips/Price, 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.