Elkhorn - I-43 @ Centralia Ave.EKNW3
Beside a road/6.0 mi away/986 ft/22 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Williams Bay until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Williams Bay is 46° and overcast at 5 AM. With the wind it feels like 40°. The dew point is 45°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the west-northwest at 14 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 52° by 12 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° 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 56°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:11 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 9:59 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 4 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 5:00 AM in Williams Bay, Wisconsin.
Air quality
Index 21, good, led by ozone. Read at 5 AM 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 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.38 in in the last 24 hours, 0.73 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 9 miles Fri 9 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Williams Bay, WisconsinReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Williams Bay, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Elkhorn - I-43 @ Centralia Ave.EKNW3
Beside a road/6.0 mi away/986 ft/22 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station FW9847FW9847
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.1 mi away/861 ft/103 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
BurlingtonBUU
At an airfield/14.6 mi away/778 ft/186 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Fox River Near New Munster05545750
At a river or reservoir gauge/16.6 mi away/736 ft/228 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Williams Bay 0.2 WWI-WW-17
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.1 mi away/956 ft/8 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Lake GenevaLGEW3
At a cooperative observer's station/5.9 mi away/885 ft/79 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 14.6 mi from Williams Bay, Wisconsin. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 5:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 2,200 ft; the ceiling is 2,200 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
51.3 F with a dew point of 44.8 F, 78 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,500 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,200 ft.
From the west northwest (290 degrees) at 10 mph, gusting 20 mph: force 3, a gentle 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), 5.9 miles from here, read 15 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.