La Pointe4R5
At an airfield/8.3 mi away/624 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Now. Schoolhouse Beach is 43° and overcast at 6 AM. With the wind it feels like 35°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north at 19 mph, gusting to 31 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 49° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 38° by 4 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 65°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:14 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 9:47 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 54 minutes long, 4 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 6:00 AM in Schoolhouse Beach, Wisconsin.
Air quality
Index 21, good, led by ozone. Read at 6 AM from its reporting area, Northwoods West (WI), 72 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 22, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.83 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 5 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 1 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Facing S 176°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
The waves at buoy 45006, 51.2 mi away.
Wave height is the significant height: the mean of the highest third of the waves. The period is the time between the waves carrying the most energy.
| Time | Wave height | Period | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 5:50 AM | 4.9 ft | 5 s | NNE (31°) |
| Fri 4:50 AM | 3.0 ft | 4 s | NE (39°) |
| Fri 3:50 AM | 2.3 ft | 4 s | NE (37°) |
| Fri 2:50 AM | 2.0 ft | 4 s | NNE (27°) |
| Fri 1:50 AM | 2.0 ft | 4 s | NNE (30°) |
| Fri 12:50 AM | 2.0 ft | 4 s | NNE (30°) |
| Thu 11:50 PM | 2.0 ft | 4 s | NNE (30°) |
| Thu 10:50 PM | 1.3 ft | 3 s | NE (39°) |
| Thu 9:50 PM | 0.7 ft | - | - |
| Thu 8:50 PM | 0.3 ft | - | - |
| Thu 7:50 PM | 0.7 ft | - | - |
| Thu 6:50 PM | 0.7 ft | - | - |
| Thu 5:50 PM | 0.7 ft | - | - |
| Thu 4:50 PM | 0.7 ft | - | - |
| Thu 3:50 PM | 0.7 ft | - | - |
| Thu 2:50 PM | 0.7 ft | - | - |
| Thu 1:50 PM | 1.0 ft | 4 s | SE (135°) |
| Thu 12:50 PM | 1.3 ft | 4 s | SE (136°) |
| Thu 11:50 AM | 1.6 ft | 4 s | SE (132°) |
| Thu 10:50 AM | 1.3 ft | 4 s | ESE (105°) |
| Thu 9:50 AM | 1.3 ft | 3 s | SE (134°) |
| Thu 8:50 AM | 1.6 ft | 4 s | SE (143°) |
| Thu 7:50 AM | 2.0 ft | 3 s | SE (145°) |
| Thu 6:50 AM | 1.3 ft | 3 s | SE (128°) |
The 6 instruments nearest Schoolhouse Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
La Pointe4R5
At an airfield/8.3 mi away/624 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW6222DW6222
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.8 mi away/602 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Ashland Breakwater Lighthouse Chequamegon Bay463741090521301
At a lighthouse/19.4 mi away/601 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
US 2 WB 3.7 mi west of US 51WI083
Beside a road/33.8 mi away/1,526 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
La Pointe 10.5 ENEWI-AS-22
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.4 mi away/620 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/13.0 mi away/614 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Bayfield Fish Hatchery (BFHW3), 13.0 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. 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.