Temperature
45 F at 10 PM; 53 F at its warmest, 12 PM, and 45 F at its coolest, 2 AM.
- Now
- 45F
- 10 PM
- Highest
- 53F
- 12 PM
- Lowest
- 45F
- 2 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/South Dakota/Aberdeen Regional Airport
Coming up. Tomorrow is 10 degrees cooler: a high of 50° after 60° today.
Now. Aberdeen Regional Airport is 45° and mostly cloudy at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 36°. The dew point is 39°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the northwest at 22 mph, gusting to 37 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 35° by 8 AM, with some cloud. 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 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 50°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 23 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 31°.
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 10 hours 59 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Aberdeen Regional Airport, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 17, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Aberdeen (SD), 4 miles off.
Yesterday measured 18, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.15 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 7 miles Thu 11 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 / 31 | 6,901 ft | 100 ft | Concrete | 135° / 315° | 23 mph head, on 31 | 2 mph from the right |
| 17 / 35 | 5,500 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 180° / 0° | 18 mph head, on 35 | 15 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Aberdeen (ABR), Aberdeen Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
45 F at 10 PM; 53 F at its warmest, 12 PM, and 45 F at its coolest, 2 AM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 39 F, the air 79% saturated; the humidity ran from 52% at 1 PM to 100% at 3 AM.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
23 mph from the northwest at 10 PM; at its strongest 26 mph, 12 PM, with a gust of 44 mph at 6 PM.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.26 inHg at 10 PM, rising 0.03 inHg over 3 hours; 0.07 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
10 miles or more every hour.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 1,400 ft at 10 AM; a base was reported in 22 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.09 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.03 in, in the hour to 2 AM.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Aberdeen: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 6 instruments nearest Aberdeen Regional Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
AberdeenABR
At an airfield/0.1 mi away/1,296 ft/6 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
At a river or reservoir gauge/11.8 mi away/1,345 ft/43 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
SD RWIS MelletteSD043
Beside a road/20.6 mi away/1,299 ft/3 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Aberdeen 35 WNW54933
At a climate reference station/38.3 mi away/1,957 ft/655 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Aberdeen 3EABES2
At a cooperative observer's station/0.6 mi away/1,299 ft/3 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Aberdeen 1.5 SESD-BR-46
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.7 mi away/1,306 ft/4 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Aberdeen 3E (ABES2), 0.6 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 18:00. measured daily
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.