Beside a road/6.7 mi away/1,071 ft/136 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Thorp until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely early this morning, from about 4 AM (52%).
Now. Thorp is 44° and light rain at 4 AM. With the wind it feels like 40°. The dew point is 43°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the northwest at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 48° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 30° by 3 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 70°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 26°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:17 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 9:57 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 4:00 AM in Thorp, Wisconsin.
Air quality
Index 26, good, led by fine particles. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Chippewa Valley and Eastern Twin Cities (WI), 50 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, 1.25 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 3 miles Fri 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Thorp, WisconsinReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Thorp, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Beside a road/6.7 mi away/1,071 ft/136 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Diamond Lake RAWSDMLW3
A remote fire weather station/11.4 mi away/1,306 ft/99 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW4269GW4269
In a volunteer observer's own ground/23.1 mi away/1,442 ft/235 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
MedfordMDZ
At an airfield/26.1 mi away/1,470 ft/263 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Thorp 4.2 NWWI-CK-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.2 mi away/1,195 ft/12 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Owen 1EOWEW3
At a cooperative observer's station/12.2 mi away/1,273 ft/66 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 26.1 mi from Thorp, Wisconsin. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 1,800 ft, scattered at 3,300 ft, overcast at 4,900 ft; the ceiling is 4,900 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 1,800 ft.
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 7 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Medford, 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.