BrookingsBKX
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/1,609 ft/39 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Airports/South Dakota/Brookings Regional Airport
Brookings Regional Airport, South Dakota
Small airport in Brookings 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.
45°
57°/41°
Overcast·
Feels like 36°·Fresh breeze 23 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Brookings Regional Airport until 8 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 8 degrees cooler: a high of 49° after 57° today.
Now. Brookings Regional Airport is 45° and overcast at 9 PM. With the wind it feels like 36°. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the northwest at 23 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 37° 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 49°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 25 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 30°.
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. 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
34Air quality
68%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
9:00 PM
45feels36
23mph
Today
Oct 15
5741
65%
23mph
Fri
Oct 16
4937
25mph
Sat
Oct 17
5930
22mph
Sun
Oct 18
6541
17mph
Mon
Oct 19
6440
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6842
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7250
14mph
45°
57°41°
49°37°
59°30°
65°41°
64°40°
68°42°
72°50°
As of 9:00 PM in Brookings Regional Airport, South Dakota.
Air quality
The air at Brookings Regional Airport
Index 34, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Brookings (SD), 3 miles off.
34Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)32Good3.4 mi
- Ozone19Good21 ppb3.4 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)34Good3.4 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 21, good.
GoodModerate
- 21YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Brookings Regional Airport
0.14 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.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.14in
- Last 3 days
- 0.14in
Visibility
How far you can see at Brookings Regional Airport, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 9 miles Thu 11 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- BKX
- ICAO
- KBKX
- IATA
- BKX
- Field elevation
- 1,648 ft
- Serves
- Brookings
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- BKX
- Wind now
- From 310° at 23 mph, read 15 Oct, 20:56
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 / 30 | 6,000 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 129° / 309° | 23 mph head, on 30 | None |
| 17 / 35 | 3,600 ft | 60 ft | Asphalt | 177° / 357° | 16 mph head, on 35 | 17 mph from the left |
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Brookings Regional 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 now3 instruments
Big Sioux River 10 SE BrookingsBRKS2
At a river or reservoir gauge/9.3 mi away/1,558 ft/90 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
SD RWIS WardSD077
Beside a road/10.9 mi away/1,654 ft/6 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Brookings 1.4 NWSD-BK-54
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.1 mi away/1,608 ft/40 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
BrookingsBROS2
At a cooperative observer's station/2.6 mi away/1,650 ft/2 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Brookings (BROS2), 2.6 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in South Dakota
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Brookings Regional Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Brookingscity, 1 mi
- Volgacity, 5 mi
- Auroratown, 7 mi
- Bushnelltown, 9 mi
- Brucecity, 10 mi
- Rolland Colonycommunity, 11 mi
- Sinaitown, 12 mi
- Whitecity, 12 mi
- Nundatown, 14 mi
- Newdale Colonycommunity, 15 mi
- Norfeld Colonycommunity, 15 mi
- Arlingtoncity, 16 mi
Airports near Brookings Regional Airport
- Madison Municipal AirportMDS, 24 mi
- Wilder Airport6E5, 38 mi
- Watertown Regional AirportATY, 45 mi
- Sioux Falls Regional AirportFSD, 50 mi
- Milbank Municipal Airport1D1, 65 mi
- Huron Regional AirportHON, 70 mi
- Mitchell Municipal AirportMHE, 71 mi
- Redfield Municipal Airport1D8, 93 mi