I-39 NB at CTH N - WausauWUSW3
Beside a road/2.5 mi away/1,198 ft/12 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Rothschild until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Rothschild is 45° and overcast at 6 AM. With the wind it feels like 41°. The dew point is 43°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 48° by 11 AM. Tonight falls to about 29° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 69°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 29°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:12 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 9:53 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 58 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 6:00 AM in Rothschild, Wisconsin.
Air quality
Index 22, good, led by ozone. Read at 6 AM from its reporting area, Central Waters North (WI), 19 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 18, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
1.20 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 5 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 8 miles Sat 6 AM.
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The 6 instruments nearest Rothschild, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.
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I-39 NB at CTH N - WausauWUSW3
Beside a road/2.5 mi away/1,198 ft/12 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
WausauAUW
At an airfield/3.0 mi away/1,198 ft/12 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW7529DW7529
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.2 mi away/1,239 ft/29 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Mosinee 2SEMNEW3
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.6 mi away/1,237 ft/27 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Rothschild 0.5 ENEWI-MT-29
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.5 mi away/1,251 ft/41 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Wausau Wsaw TvSAUW3
At a cooperative observer's station/4.6 mi away/1,178 ft/32 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 3.0 mi from Rothschild, Wisconsin. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 5:54 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 2,000 ft, overcast at 2,500 ft; the ceiling is 2,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
46.0 F with a dew point of 43.0 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 2,000 ft.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 9 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 22 mph.
The full report of Wausau, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Wausau Wsaw Tv (SAUW3), 4.6 miles from here, read 13 Oct, 23:00. 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.