Airports/South Dakota/Redfield Municipal Airport
Coming up. Tomorrow is 14 degrees warmer: a high of 64° after 50° today.
Now. Redfield Municipal Airport is 45° and overcast at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 36°. The dew point is 43°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Strong breeze from the northwest at 27 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 48° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 35° by 12 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 64°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:48 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:30 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 58 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Redfield Municipal Airport, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 10, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Aberdeen (SD), 42 miles off.
Yesterday measured 18, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.18 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 7 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 / 19 unlit | 2,600 ft | 250 ft | Turf | 23° / 203° | 17 mph head, on 01 | 23 mph from the left |
| 13 / 31 | 3,300 ft | 60 ft | Asphalt | 142° / 322° | 29 mph head, on 31 | 4 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Redfield (1D8), Redfield Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
46 F at 10 PM Thursday; 52 F at its warmest, 1 PM Thursday, and 46 F at its coolest, 9 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 40 F, the air 78% saturated; the humidity ran from 55% at 4 PM Thursday to 100% at 1 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
24 mph from the northwest at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 26 mph, 5 PM Thursday, with a gust of 39 mph at 5 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.29 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, rising 0.04 inHg over 3 hours; 0.14 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 5 miles at 3 AM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 300 ft at 6 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 21 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.04 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.03 in, in the hour to 1 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Redfield: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest Redfield Municipal Airport, 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 now2 instruments
Redfield1D8
At an airfield/0.4 mi away/1,302 ft/5 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Sd RWIS DolandSD613
Beside a road/15.7 mi away/1,289 ft/18 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Redfield 3.9 ESD-SP-11
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.4 mi away/1,295 ft/12 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
MelletteMELS2
At a cooperative observer's station/20.4 mi away/1,293 ft/14 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.