Temperature
47 F at 9 PM; 55 F at its warmest, 2 PM, and 46 F at its coolest, 4 AM.
- Now
- 47F
- 9 PM
- Highest
- 55F
- 2 PM
- Lowest
- 46F
- 4 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/South Dakota/Chamberlain Municipal Airport
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Chamberlain Municipal Airport until 4 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 9 degrees cooler: a high of 50° after 59° today.
Now. Chamberlain Municipal Airport is 46° and overcast at 9 PM. With the wind it feels like 36°. The dew point is 34°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Strong breeze from the northwest at 30 mph, gusting to 41 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 37° by 8 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 50°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 23 mph. Frost is possible Saturday morning, a low of 34°.
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 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 day is 11 hours 4 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Chamberlain Municipal Airport, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 26, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Pierre (SD), 64 miles off.
Yesterday measured 37, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
0.43 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 10 miles Fri 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 / 31 | 4,299 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 141° / 321° | 33 mph head, on 31 | 1 mph from the left |
| 18 / 36 unlit | 3,403 ft | 150 ft | Grass | 187° / 7° | 23 mph head, on 36 | 24 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Chamberlain (9V9), Chamberlain Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
47 F at 9 PM; 55 F at its warmest, 2 PM, and 46 F at its coolest, 4 AM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 34 F, the air 62% saturated; the humidity ran from 52% at 2 PM to 99% at 7 AM.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
28 mph from the northwest at 9 PM; at its strongest 28 mph, 4 PM, with a gust of 41 mph at 9 PM.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.38 inHg at 9 PM, steady over 3 hours; 0.21 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 3 miles at 5 AM; 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; a base was reported in 24 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.30 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.12 in, in the hour to 7 AM.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Chamberlain: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Chamberlain Municipal Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Chamberlain9V9
At an airfield/0.2 mi away/1,672 ft/23 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
SD RWIS RelianceSD059
Beside a road/13.4 mi away/1,821 ft/126 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At a river or reservoir gauge/22.0 mi away/1,453 ft/242 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Chamberlain 2.9 SSD-BL-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.1 mi away/1,682 ft/13 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Chamberlain 5 SCBRS2
At a cooperative observer's station/1.9 mi away/1,657 ft/38 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.