Temperature
45 F at 10 PM; 51 F at its warmest, 1 PM, and 45 F at its coolest, 10 PM.
- Now
- 45F
- 10 PM
- Highest
- 51F
- 1 PM
- Lowest
- 45F
- 10 PM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/South Dakota/Wilder Airport
Wilder Airport, South Dakota
Small airport in Kingsbury County, South Dakota* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 possible. * WHERE...Portions of northwest and west central Iowa, southwest Minnesota, northeast Nebraska, and east central and southeast South Dakota. * WHEN...From late Friday night through Saturday morning. * 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.
44°
58°/40°
Overcast·
Feels like 34°·Fresh breeze 24 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Wilder Airport until 8 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 10 degrees cooler: a high of 48° after 58° today.
Now. Wilder Airport is 44° and overcast at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 34°. The dew point is 37°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the northwest at 24 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 36° by 8 AM, under cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 48°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 28 mph. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 36°.
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 2 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
42Air quality
76%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
44feels34
24mph
Today
Oct 15
5840
55%
28mph
Fri
Oct 16
4836
28mph
Sat
Oct 17
5933
23mph
Sun
Oct 18
6442
17mph
Mon
Oct 19
6341
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6844
12mph
Wed
Oct 21
7252
15mph
44°
58°40°
48°36°
59°33°
64°42°
63°41°
68°44°
72°52°
As of 11:00 PM in Wilder Airport, South Dakota.
Air quality
The air at Wilder Airport
Index 42, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Brookings (SD), 38 miles off.
42Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)42Good-
- Ozone19Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)29Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 21, good.
GoodModerate
- 21YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Wilder Airport
0.17 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.17in
- Last 3 days
- 0.17in
Visibility
How far you can see at Wilder Airport, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 10 miles Fri 1 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- 6E5
- ICAO
- -
- IATA
- -
- Field elevation
- 1,729 ft
- Serves
- De Smet
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- 6E5
- Wind now
- From 310° at 26 mph, read 15 Oct, 22:55
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 / 33 | 3,700 ft | 60 ft | Asphalt | 159° / 339° | 23 mph head, on 33 | 13 mph from the left |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Desmet (6E5), Wilder Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 37 F, the air 76% saturated; the humidity ran from 43% at 4 PM to 100% at 12 AM.
- Dew point now
- 37F
- 10 PM
- Humidity now
- 76%
- Humidity, range
- 43 to 100%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
25 mph from the northwest at 10 PM; at its strongest 26 mph, 3 PM, with a gust of 39 mph at 3 PM.
- Now
- 25mph
- from the northwest
- Strongest
- 26mph
- 3 PM
- Highest gust
- 39mph
- 3 PM
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.23 inHg at 10 PM, rising 0.03 inHg over 3 hours; 0.07 inHg higher than a day before.
- Now
- 30.23inHg
- 10 PM
- 3 hours
- +0.03inHg
- rising
- 24 hours
- +0.07inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 4 miles at 9 AM; 10 miles or more now.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 4mi
- 9 AM
- Hours under a mile
- 0
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
Cloud base
The lowest cloud base came down to 500 ft at 10 AM; a base was reported in 23 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- -
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 500ft
- 10 AM
- Hours with a base reported
- 23
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
Precipitation
0.06 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.04 in, in the hour to 12 AM.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.06in
- Wettest hour
- 0.04in
- 12 AM
- Hours with some
- 3
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Desmet: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 4 instruments nearest Wilder Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.0 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
Desmet6E5
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/1,726 ft/3 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Sd RWIS BryantSD599
Beside a road/10.7 mi away/1,824 ft/95 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Huron-33MI.EDSMS2
At a cooperative observer's station/3.4 mi away/1,722 ft/7 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
De Smet 0.2 SSESD-KY-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.4 mi away/1,715 ft/14 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Huron-33MI.E (DSMS2), 3.4 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 20:07. measured daily
Elsewhere in South Dakota
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Wilder Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- De Smetcity, 3 mi
- Erwintown, 7 mi
- Bancrofttown, 10 mi
- Lake Prestoncity, 10 mi
- Collins Colonycommunity, 11 mi
- Bryantcity, 12 mi
- Willow Lakecity, 14 mi
- Iroquoiscity, 15 mi
- Hetlandtown, 16 mi
- Cloverleaf Colonycommunity, 17 mi
- Badgertown, 18 mi
- Mayfield Colonycommunity, 18 mi
Airports near Wilder Airport
- Huron Regional AirportHON, 33 mi
- Madison Municipal AirportMDS, 37 mi
- Brookings Regional AirportBKX, 38 mi
- Watertown Regional AirportATY, 39 mi
- Mitchell Municipal AirportMHE, 51 mi
- Redfield Municipal Airport1D8, 56 mi
- Sioux Falls Regional AirportFSD, 71 mi
- Milbank Municipal Airport1D1, 73 mi