Badger Mill Creek @ Highways 18 & 151 @ Madison05435935
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.5 mi away/965 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Fireman's Beach, Wisconsin
Beach in Dane County, Wisconsin* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 28 expected. * WHERE...Portions of east central, south central, and southeast Wisconsin. * WHEN...Until 9 AM CDT Saturday. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
35°
57°/31°
Clear·
Feels like 35°·Light air 1 mph NNW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Fireman's Beach until 9 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Fireman's Beach is 35° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 30°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the north-northwest at 1 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 55° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 40° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 63°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:13 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 11:02 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 0 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
9Air quality
80%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
35feels35
now, clear
Today
Oct 17
5731
12mph
Sun
Oct 18
6338
14mph
Mon
Oct 19
6639
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6940
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7144
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7349
overcast
Fri
Oct 23
7349
overcast
35°
57°31°
63°38°
66°39°
69°40°
71°44°
73°49°
73°49°
As of 1:00 AM in Fireman's Beach, Wisconsin.
Air quality
The air at Fireman's Beach
Index 9, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Madison Area (WI), 9 miles off.
9Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)9Good12.4 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)4Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 13, good.
GoodModerate
- 13YesterdayOct 16
- GoodTodayOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
- GoodMonOct 19
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Fireman's Beach
0.09 in in the last 24 hours, 0.75 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.09in
- Last 3 days
- 0.75in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 12%
Visibility
How far you can see at Fireman's Beach, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 7 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Beach
- County
- Dane County
- State
- Wisconsin
- Latitude
- 42.9792° N
- Longitude
- 89.5394° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Fireman's Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station GW0157GW0157
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.0 mi away/900 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
MiddletonC29
At an airfield/9.3 mi away/925 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Beside a road/19.3 mi away/912 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Verona 1.3 SEWI-DA-152
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.2 mi away/1,054 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
MadisonCHMW3
At a cooperative observer's station/6.4 mi away/1,056 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Madison (CHMW3), 6.4 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 06:20. measured daily
Elsewhere in Wisconsin
19 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Fireman's Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Veronacity, 1 mi
- Fitchburgcity, 6 mi
- Bellevillevillage, 8 mi
- Shorewood Hillsvillage, 8 mi
- Oregonvillage, 9 mi
- Middletoncity, 9 mi
- Mount Horebvillage, 10 mi
- Madisoncity, 10 mi
- Cross Plainsvillage, 11 mi
- Mononacity, 12 mi
- Brooklynvillage, 12 mi
- New Glarusvillage, 13 mi
Beaches near Fireman's Beach
- Spring Harbor Beach8 mi
- Circle Bench8 mi
- Marshall Beach8 mi
- Vilas Beach8 mi
- Willow Beach9 mi
- Bernies Beach9 mi
- Brittingham Beach9 mi
- Olin Beach10 mi