Temperature
44 F at 12 AM; 56 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 44 F at its coolest, 10 PM Thursday.
- Now
- 44F
- 12 AM
- Highest
- 56F
- 3 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 44F
- 10 PM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/South Dakota/Winner Regional Airport
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Winner Regional Airport until 4 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 18 degrees warmer: a high of 69° after 51° today.
Now. Winner Regional Airport is 43° and overcast at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 34°. The dew point is 34°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Strong breeze from the northwest at 27 mph, gusting to 41 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 49° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 38° by 10 PM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 76°, and the coolest Monday, near 65°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:55 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:42 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 11 hours 2 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Winner Regional Airport, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 34, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Pierre (SD), 71 miles off.
Yesterday measured 37, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.41 in in the last 24 hours, 0.54 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 7 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03 / 21 unlit | 2,751 ft | 150 ft | Grass | 39° / 219° | 6 mph head, on 03 | 28 mph from the left |
| 13 / 31 | 5,500 ft | 75 ft | Concrete | 135° / 315° | 29 mph head, on 31 | 3 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Winner (ICR), Winner Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
44 F at 12 AM; 56 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 44 F at its coolest, 10 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 34 F, the air 68% saturated; the humidity ran from 47% at 3 PM Thursday to 99% at 5 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
27 mph from the northwest at 12 AM; at its strongest 33 mph, 5 PM Thursday, with a gust of 49 mph at 5 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.47 inHg at 12 AM, rising 0.07 inHg over 3 hours; 0.34 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 4 miles at 4 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 4 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 22 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.37 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.10 in, in the hour to 6 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Winner: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest Winner 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 now2 instruments
WinnerICR
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/2,008 ft/25 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
SD RWIS WittenSD081
Beside a road/11.2 mi away/2,119 ft/86 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Winner 0.5 ENESD-TP-39
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.1 mi away/1,998 ft/35 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
WinnerWINS2
At a cooperative observer's station/1.3 mi away/1,942 ft/91 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Winner (WINS2), 1.3 miles from here, read 12 Oct, 07:00. 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.