Temperature
45 F at 10 PM; 50 F at its warmest, 2 PM, and 45 F at its coolest, 9 PM.
- Now
- 45F
- 10 PM
- Highest
- 50F
- 2 PM
- Lowest
- 45F
- 9 PM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/South Dakota/Madison Municipal Airport
Madison Municipal Airport, South Dakota
Small airport in Lake 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.
44°
56°/42°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 35°·Fresh breeze 21 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Madison Municipal 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 48° after 56° today.
Now. Madison Municipal Airport is 44° and mostly cloudy at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 35°. The dew point is 38°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the northwest at 21 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 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 48°. 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 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. The day is 11 hours 3 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
42Air quality
86%Humidity
81%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
44feels35
21mph
Today
Oct 15
5642
71%
22mph
Fri
Oct 16
4837
23mph
Sat
Oct 17
5831
21mph
Sun
Oct 18
6340
16mph
Mon
Oct 19
6240
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6642
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7150
14mph
44°
56°42°
48°37°
58°31°
63°40°
62°40°
66°42°
71°50°
As of 11:00 PM in Madison Municipal Airport, South Dakota.
Air quality
The air at Madison Municipal Airport
Index 42, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Brookings (SD), 27 miles off.
42Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)42Good-
- Ozone19Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)29Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 21, good.
GoodModerate
- 21YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Madison Municipal Airport
0.30 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
- 0.30in
- Last 3 days
- 0.30in
Visibility
How far you can see at Madison Municipal Airport, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 4 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- MDS
- ICAO
- KMDS
- IATA
- XMD
- Field elevation
- 1,718 ft
- Serves
- Madison
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- MDS
- Wind now
- From 310° at 23 mph, read 15 Oct, 23:15
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03 / 21 unlit | 2,380 ft | 200 ft | Grass | 34° / 214° | 2 mph head, on 03 | 23 mph from the left |
| 15 / 33 | 5,000 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 154° / 334° | 21 mph head, on 33 | 9 mph from the left |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Madison (MDS), Madison Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 39 F, the air 79% saturated; the humidity ran from 68% at 5 PM to 100% at 12 AM.
- Dew point now
- 39F
- 10 PM
- Humidity now
- 79%
- Humidity, range
- 68 to 100%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
21 mph from the northwest at 10 PM; at its strongest 28 mph, 4 PM, with a gust of 39 mph at 4 PM.
- Now
- 21mph
- from the northwest
- Strongest
- 28mph
- 4 PM
- Highest gust
- 39mph
- 4 PM
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.21 inHg at 10 PM, steady over 3 hours; 0.07 inHg higher than a day before.
- Now
- 30.21inHg
- 10 PM
- 3 hours
- +0.02inHg
- steady
- 24 hours
- +0.07inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
10 miles or more every hour.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 10+mi
- 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 500 ft at 8 AM; a base was reported in 23 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- -
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 500ft
- 8 AM
- Hours with a base reported
- 23
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
Precipitation
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Wettest hour
- -
- Hours with some
- 0
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Madison: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Madison 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 now5 instruments
MadisonMDS
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/1,709 ft/9 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Sd RWIS MadisonSD636
Beside a road/2.2 mi away/1,667 ft/51 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Big Sioux River 10 SE BrookingsBRKS2
At a river or reservoir gauge/20.2 mi away/1,558 ft/160 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Eros Data CenterS2072
At a soil climate station/30.4 mi away/1,551 ft/167 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Sioux Falls 14 NNE04990
At a climate reference station/30.5 mi away/1,594 ft/124 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Madison 0.8 NESD-LK-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.5 mi away/1,722 ft/4 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
MadisonMRFS2
At a cooperative observer's station/7.4 mi away/1,742 ft/24 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 Madison (MRFS2), 7.4 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 09:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in South Dakota
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Madison Municipal Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Madisoncity, 1 mi
- Lake Madisoncommunity, 5 mi
- Wentworthvillage, 6 mi
- Brant Lakecity, 9 mi
- Ramonatown, 10 mi
- Rustic Acres Colonycommunity, 10 mi
- Brant Lake Southcommunity, 10 mi
- Nundatown, 11 mi
- Chestercommunity, 11 mi
- Graceville Colonycommunity, 12 mi
- Colmancity, 14 mi
- Winfredcommunity, 14 mi
Airports near Madison Municipal Airport
- Brookings Regional AirportBKX, 24 mi
- Sioux Falls Regional AirportFSD, 34 mi
- Wilder Airport6E5, 37 mi
- Mitchell Municipal AirportMHE, 50 mi
- Huron Regional AirportHON, 62 mi
- Watertown Regional AirportATY, 62 mi
- Chan Gurney Municipal AirportYKN, 77 mi
- Harold Davidson FieldVMR, 87 mi