East Branch Pecatonica River Nr Blanchardville05433000
At a river or reservoir gauge/11.2 mi away/797 ft/189 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Wiota until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Wiota is 54° and overcast at 10 PM. The dew point is 54°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 15 mph, gusting to 27 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 44° by 7 AM, under cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. Rain is possible tomorrow (38%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph. 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Wiota, Wisconsin.
Air quality
Index 13, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Driftless Area South (WI), 30 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
0.47 in in the last 24 hours, 1.10 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Wiota, WisconsinReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Wiota, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.1 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
East Branch Pecatonica River Nr Blanchardville05433000
At a river or reservoir gauge/11.2 mi away/797 ft/189 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Beside a road/16.2 mi away/1,076 ft/90 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
MonroeEFT
At an airfield/18.6 mi away/1,086 ft/100 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
PlattevilleS2196
At a soil climate station/22.2 mi away/1,014 ft/28 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Citizen station GW0157GW0157
In a volunteer observer's own ground/29.3 mi away/900 ft/86 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Argyle 3.5 SWI-LF-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.1 mi away/857 ft/129 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
ArgyleARGW3
At a cooperative observer's station/6.1 mi away/801 ft/185 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 18.6 mi from Wiota, Wisconsin. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 1,100 ft, overcast at 1,500 ft; the ceiling is 1,100 ft; visibility 7 mi.
55.0 F with a dew point of 54.3 F, 97 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 200 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,100 ft.
From the west northwest (300 degrees) at 15 mph, gusting 29 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 29 mph.
The full report of Monroe, 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.