Star Prairie RAWSSRPW3
A remote fire weather station/4.5 mi away/947 ft/77 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Somerset until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Somerset is 45° and rain at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 39°. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 10 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 3 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:24 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:04 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 57 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Somerset, Wisconsin.
Air quality
Index 29, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Twin Cities (MN), 27 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 21, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.77 in in the last 24 hours, 0.79 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 4 miles Fri 2 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Somerset, WisconsinReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Somerset, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Star Prairie RAWSSRPW3
A remote fire weather station/4.5 mi away/947 ft/77 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/6.9 mi away/997 ft/127 ft above here
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River Falls - STH 35 @ Glover Ln.WI042
Beside a road/14.5 mi away/896 ft/26 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station EW2192EW2192
In a volunteer observer's own ground/19.9 mi away/1,018 ft/148 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Somerset 0.7 SWWI-SC-101
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.6 mi away/941 ft/71 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
RobertsROBW3
At a cooperative observer's station/12.0 mi away/961 ft/91 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 6.9 mi from Somerset, Wisconsin. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 2,100 ft; the ceiling is 2,100 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
44.0 F with a dew point of 42.3 F, 94 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 400 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,100 ft.
From the west northwest (290 degrees) at 15 mph, gusting 20 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 21 mph.
The full report of New Richmond Mun, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Roberts (ROBW3), 12.0 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 06:00. 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.