Lake Koshkonong Near Newville05427235
At a river or reservoir gauge/10.1 mi away/770 ft/103 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Whitewater until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Whitewater is 56° and overcast at 11 PM. The dew point is 53°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the west-northwest at 13 mph, gusting to 23 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 46° by 6 AM, under cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 70°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 30°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 11 hours 6 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Whitewater, Wisconsin.
Air quality
Index 22, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Kettle Moraine South (WI), 5 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 23, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.44 in in the last 24 hours, 0.59 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Whitewater, WisconsinReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Whitewater, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Lake Koshkonong Near Newville05427235
At a river or reservoir gauge/10.1 mi away/770 ft/103 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
I-39 / 90 at STH 59 NewvilleWI088
Beside a road/14.4 mi away/869 ft/4 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
In a volunteer observer's own ground/15.3 mi away/877 ft/4 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
East Troy57C
At an airfield/19.0 mi away/834 ft/39 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
WhitewaterWHTW3
At a cooperative observer's station/1.5 mi away/794 ft/79 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Whitewater 2.3 NEWI-JF-30
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.4 mi away/844 ft/29 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 19.0 mi from Whitewater, Wisconsin. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:15 PM local time: 3 of its 5 sheets.
Overcast at 1,300 ft; the ceiling is 1,300 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
From the west northwest (290 degrees) at 16 mph, gusting 24 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 24 mph.
At 834 ft above sea level, 3 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 29.03 inHg and the temperature at 56.0 F; the station's altimeter setting of 29.78 inHg means its barometer reads 28.89 inHg.
The full report of East Troy, in 5 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Whitewater (WHTW3), 1.5 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 06:54. 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.