Airports/South Dakota/Mitchell Municipal Airport
Coming up. Tomorrow is 12 degrees warmer: a high of 62° after 50° today.
Now. Mitchell Municipal Airport is 46° and overcast at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 37°. The dew point is 37°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the northwest at 25 mph, gusting to 38 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 49° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° by 1 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 62°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:47 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:33 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 1 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Mitchell Municipal Airport, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 26, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Santee Sioux Reservation (NE), 66 miles off.
Yesterday measured 15, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.15 in in the last 24 hours, 0.17 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 / 31 | 6,701 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 134° / 314° | 28 mph head, on 31 | 3 mph from the right |
| 18 / 36 | 5,513 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 180° / 0° | 21 mph head, on 36 | 18 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Mitchell (MHE), Mitchell Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
47 F at 10 PM Thursday; 55 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 47 F at its coolest, 1 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 36 F, the air 65% saturated; the humidity ran from 54% at 4 PM Thursday to 96% at 1 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
26 mph from the northwest at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 28 mph, 3 PM Thursday, with a gust of 46 mph at 3 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.31 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, rising 0.03 inHg over 3 hours; 0.17 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 4 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 400 ft at 8 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 22 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Mitchell: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest Mitchell 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 now2 instruments
MitchellMHE
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/1,298 ft/6 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Sd RWIS ForestburgSD527
Beside a road/16.3 mi away/1,286 ft/18 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Mitchell 1.1 NSD-DV-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.8 mi away/1,293 ft/11 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
MitchellMCLS2
At a cooperative observer's station/5.0 mi away/1,345 ft/41 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Mitchell (MCLS2), 5.0 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 22:39. 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.