Temperature
43 F at 10 PM; 55 F at its warmest, 3 PM, and 43 F at its coolest, 10 PM.
- Now
- 43F
- 10 PM
- Highest
- 55F
- 3 PM
- Lowest
- 43F
- 10 PM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/South Dakota/Rosebud Sioux Tribal Airport
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Rosebud Sioux Tribal Airport until 4 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Rosebud Sioux Tribal Airport is 42° and overcast at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 32°. The dew point is 30°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the northwest at 25 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 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 51°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 40 mph. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 33°.
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 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 11 hours 5 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Rosebud Sioux Tribal Airport, South Dakota.
Precipitation
0.21 in in the last 24 hours, 0.23 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 10 miles Fri 6 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Measured here
Every hour from Rosebud (SUO), Rosebud Sioux Tribal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
43 F at 10 PM; 55 F at its warmest, 3 PM, and 43 F at its coolest, 10 PM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 30 F, the air 61% saturated; the humidity ran from 43% at 4 PM to 100% at 11 PM Wednesday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
18 mph from the northwest at 10 PM; at its strongest 23 mph, 3 PM, with a gust of 45 mph at 2 PM.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.45 inHg at 10 PM, rising 0.05 inHg over 3 hours; 0.36 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 0.3 miles at 4 AM, under a mile for 4 hours; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 200 ft at 3 AM; a base was reported in 23 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.21 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.03 in, in the hour to 9 AM.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Rosebud: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Rosebud Sioux Tribal 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
RosebudSUO
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/2,700 ft/24 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Magpie Creek RAWSPRMS2
A remote fire weather station/14.9 mi away/2,844 ft/120 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Sd RWIS MissionSD546
Beside a road/17.2 mi away/2,792 ft/68 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Rosebud 1.2 WNWSD-TD-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.0 mi away/2,607 ft/117 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Mission 14SMSNS2
At a cooperative observer's station/16.2 mi away/2,769 ft/45 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Mission 14S (MSNS2), 16.2 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. 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.