Elkhorn - I-43 @ Centralia Ave.EKNW3
Beside a road/6.2 mi away/986 ft/134 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Springfield until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Springfield is 53° and overcast at 1 PM. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north at 12 mph, gusting to 29 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 45° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:10 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 9:58 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 3 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 PM in Springfield, Wisconsin.
Air quality
Index 4, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 PM from its reporting area, Kettle Moraine South (WI), 17 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 23, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 AM.
Precipitation
0.30 in in the last 24 hours, 0.74 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 7 AM, lowest 9 miles Sat 7 AM.
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The 6 instruments nearest Springfield, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Elkhorn - I-43 @ Centralia Ave.EKNW3
Beside a road/6.2 mi away/986 ft/134 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
BurlingtonBUU
At an airfield/6.4 mi away/778 ft/74 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW9847FW9847
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.2 mi away/861 ft/9 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Fox River Near New Munster05545750
At a river or reservoir gauge/9.8 mi away/736 ft/116 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Burlington 4.8 WWI-WW-9
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.8 mi away/904 ft/52 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Lake GenevaLGEW3
At a cooperative observer's station/3.5 mi away/885 ft/33 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 6.4 mi from Springfield, Wisconsin. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 2,500 ft, broken at 4,600 ft, overcast at 5,000 ft; the ceiling is 4,600 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
55.0 F with a dew point of 44.0 F, 66 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,500 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,500 ft.
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 14 mph, gusting 22 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 30 mph.
The full report of Burlington, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Lake Geneva (LGEW3), 3.5 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 07:00. 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.