Temperature
44 F at 3 AM; 56 F at its warmest, 2 PM Thursday, and 44 F at its coolest, 3 AM.
- Now
- 44F
- 3 AM
- Highest
- 56F
- 2 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 44F
- 3 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/South Dakota/Huron Regional Airport
Coming up. Tomorrow is 13 degrees warmer: a high of 66° after 53° today.
Now. Huron Regional Airport is 43° and partly cloudy at 4 AM. With the wind it feels like 33°. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Strong breeze from the north-northwest at 26 mph, gusting to 38 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 52° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° by 12 AM, under a mostly clear sky. 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 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 66°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:47 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:31 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-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 sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 10 hours 59 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in Huron Regional Airport, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 18, good, led by fine particles. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Watertown (SD), 65 miles off.
Yesterday measured 28, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.22 in in the last 24 hours, 0.32 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 1 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 / 30 | 7,201 ft | 100 ft | Concrete | 128° / 308° | 25 mph head, on 30 | 15 mph from the right |
| 18 / 36 | 5,000 ft | 75 ft | Concrete | 179° / 359° | 27 mph head, on 36 | 9 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Huron (HON), Huron Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
44 F at 3 AM; 56 F at its warmest, 2 PM Thursday, and 44 F at its coolest, 3 AM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 37 F, the air 76% saturated; the humidity ran from 53% at 2 PM Thursday to 96% at 5 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
28 mph from the north northwest at 4 AM; at its strongest 28 mph, 3 PM Thursday, with a gust of 44 mph at 1 AM.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.49 inHg at 4 AM, rising 0.11 inHg over 3 hours; 0.35 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 3 miles at 9 AM Thursday; 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 7 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 23 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.18 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.12 in, in the hour to 9 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Huron: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Huron 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
HuronHON
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/1,261 ft/28 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Sd RWIS CavourSD515
Beside a road/12.5 mi away/1,335 ft/46 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Huron RAWSRHUS2
A remote fire weather station/28.6 mi away/1,900 ft/611 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Huron 1.2 SESD-BD-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.7 mi away/1,276 ft/13 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Woonsocket 13NEWSKS2
At a cooperative observer's station/17.9 mi away/1,307 ft/18 ft above 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.