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/Britton Municipal Airport
Britton Municipal Airport, South Dakota
Small airport in Marshall County, South Dakota44°
59°/38°
Overcast·
Feels like 35°·Fresh breeze 22 mph NNW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 11 degrees cooler: a high of 48° after 59° today.
Now. Britton Municipal Airport is 44° and overcast at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 35°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northwest at 22 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 34° by 8 AM, under cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 48°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 25 mph. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 35°.
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 10 hours 59 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
14Air quality
93%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
44feels35
18%
22mph
Today
Oct 15
5938
36%
25mph
Fri
Oct 16
4835
25mph
Sat
Oct 17
6034
24mph
Sun
Oct 18
6643
17mph
Mon
Oct 19
6337
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6841
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7150
12mph
44°
59°38°
48°35°
60°34°
66°43°
63°37°
68°41°
71°50°
As of 11:00 PM in Britton Municipal Airport, South Dakota.
Air quality
The air at Britton Municipal Airport
Index 14, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Aberdeen (SD), 44 miles off.
14Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)4Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)14Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 18, good.
GoodModerate
- 18YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Britton Municipal Airport
0.23 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
- 0.23in
- Last 3 days
- 0.23in
Visibility
How far you can see at Britton Municipal Airport, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Thu 11 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- BTN
- ICAO
- KBTN
- IATA
- TTO
- Field elevation
- 1,318 ft
- Serves
- Britton
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- BTN
- Wind now
- From 320° at 22 mph, read 15 Oct, 22:55
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 / 19 unlit | 2,034 ft | 120 ft | Grass | 26° / 206° | 9 mph head, on 01 | 20 mph from the left |
| 13 / 31 | 4,210 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 135° / 315° | 22 mph head, on 31 | 2 mph from the right |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Britton (BTN), Britton Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 43 F, the air 96% saturated; the humidity ran from 54% at 3 PM to 100% at 2 AM.
- Dew point now
- 43F
- 10 PM
- Humidity now
- 96%
- Humidity, range
- 54 to 100%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
20 mph from the northwest at 10 PM; at its strongest 25 mph, 2 PM, with a gust of 41 mph at 5 PM.
- Now
- 20mph
- from the northwest
- Strongest
- 25mph
- 2 PM
- Highest gust
- 41mph
- 5 PM
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.21 inHg at 10 PM, rising 0.06 inHg over 3 hours; 0.04 inHg higher than a day before.
- Now
- 30.21inHg
- 10 PM
- 3 hours
- +0.06inHg
- rising
- 24 hours
- +0.04inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 4 miles at 3 AM; 10 miles or more now.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 4mi
- 3 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 400 ft at 6 AM; a base was reported in 22 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- -
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 400ft
- 6 AM
- Hours with a base reported
- 22
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
Precipitation
0.01 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.01 in, in the hour to 2 AM.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.01in
- Wettest hour
- 0.01in
- 2 AM
- Hours with some
- 1
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Britton: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Britton Municipal 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
BrittonBTN
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/1,305 ft/13 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Marshall County RAWSMRLS2
A remote fire weather station/14.1 mi away/1,982 ft/664 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Sd RWIS Lake CitySD586
Beside a road/16.7 mi away/1,847 ft/529 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Britton 0.4 NWSD-MR-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.6 mi away/1,371 ft/53 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
BrittonBRIS2
At a cooperative observer's station/1.8 mi away/1,339 ft/21 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 Britton (BRIS2), 1.8 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in South Dakota
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Britton Municipal Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Brittoncity, 2 mi
- Kiddercommunity, 5 mi
- Westwood Colonycommunity, 6 mi
- Sunset Colonycommunity, 7 mi
- Newport Colonycommunity, 13 mi
- Langfordtown, 15 mi
- Claremonttown, 16 mi
- Lake Citytown, 17 mi
- Heclacity, 20 mi
- Edentown, 21 mi
- Clear Lakecommunity, 21 mi
- Veblencity, 22 mi
Airports near Britton Municipal Airport
- Sisseton Municipal Airport8D3, 37 mi
- Aberdeen Regional AirportABR, 41 mi
- Watertown Regional AirportATY, 69 mi
- Milbank Municipal Airport1D1, 70 mi
- Redfield Municipal Airport1D8, 77 mi
- Wilder Airport6E5, 96 mi
- Huron Regional AirportHON, 102 mi
- Brookings Regional AirportBKX, 114 mi