LancasterLKRW3
At a river or reservoir gauge/10.7 mi away/1,094 ft/105 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Tennyson until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Tennyson is 50° and overcast at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 45°. The dew point is 49°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the west-northwest at 14 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 51° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° by 7 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 56°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:19 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:07 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 12:00 AM in Tennyson, Wisconsin.
Air quality
Index 17, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Driftless Area South (WI), 25 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 26, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.95 in in the last 24 hours, 1.35 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 7 miles Fri 9 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Tennyson, WisconsinReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Tennyson, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
LancasterLKRW3
At a river or reservoir gauge/10.7 mi away/1,094 ft/105 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
PlattevillePVB
At an airfield/12.4 mi away/1,024 ft/35 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Dickeyville - USH 151 @ STH 11DICW3
Beside a road/12.7 mi away/801 ft/188 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
PlattevilleS2196
At a soil climate station/15.5 mi away/1,014 ft/25 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Potosi 0.1 EWI-GT-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.1 mi away/825 ft/164 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Lancaster 4WSWLANW3
At a cooperative observer's station/10.7 mi away/1,020 ft/31 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 12.4 mi from Tennyson, Wisconsin. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 1,300 ft; the ceiling is 1,300 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
49.6 F with a dew point of 49.6 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,300 ft.
From the west northwest (290 degrees) at 15 mph, gusting 22 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 29 mph.
The full report of Platteville, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Lancaster 4WSW (LANW3), 10.7 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. 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.