Temperature
52 F at 3 PM; 53 F at its warmest, 5 PM Thursday, and 42 F at its coolest, 8 AM.
- Now
- 52F
- 3 PM
- Highest
- 53F
- 5 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 42F
- 8 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/South Dakota/Chan Gurney Municipal Airport
Chan Gurney Municipal Airport, South Dakota
Medium airport in Yankton County, South Dakota* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 expected. * WHERE...Portions of northwest and west central Iowa, southwest Minnesota, northeast Nebraska, and east central and southeast South Dakota. * WHEN...From midnight tonight to 9 AM CDT Saturday. * 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.
35°
60°/33°
Clear·
Feels like 30°·Light breeze 5 mph S
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Chan Gurney Municipal Airport until 9 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Chan Gurney Municipal Airport is 35° and clear at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 30°. The dew point is 30°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the south at 5 mph.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 75°, and the coolest Monday, near 63°. Rain is possible Friday (39%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:44 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 43% lit, and sets at 11:35 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 day is 11 hours 0 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
-UV
8Air quality
79%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
35feels30
now, clear
Today
Oct 17
6033
overcast
Sun
Oct 18
6539
15mph
Mon
Oct 19
6338
12mph
Tue
Oct 20
6742
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7349
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7550
overcast
Fri
Oct 23
7556
39%
15mph
35°
60°33°
65°39°
63°38°
67°42°
73°49°
75°50°
75°56°
As of 2:00 AM in Chan Gurney Municipal Airport, South Dakota.
Air quality
The air at Chan Gurney Municipal Airport
Index 8, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Santee Sioux Reservation (NE), 24 miles off.
8Good
- Ozone8Good-
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Chan Gurney Municipal Airport
None in the last 24 hours; 0.68 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.68in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Chan Gurney Municipal Airport, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 7 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- YKN
- ICAO
- KYKN
- IATA
- YKN
- Field elevation
- 1,306 ft
- Serves
- Yankton
- Kind
- Medium airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- YKN
- Wind now
- From 150° at 5 mph, read 17 Oct, 01:56
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 / 19 | 3,380 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 21° / 201° | 3 mph head, on 19 | 4 mph from the left |
| 13 / 31 | 6,094 ft | 100 ft | Concrete | 140° / 320° | 5 mph head, on 13 | 1 mph from the right |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Yankton (YKN), Chan Gurney Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 30 F, the air 43% saturated; the humidity ran from 43% at 3 PM to 76% at 2 AM.
- Dew point now
- 30F
- 3 PM
- Humidity now
- 43%
- Humidity, range
- 43 to 76%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
15 mph from the northwest at 4 PM; at its strongest 28 mph, 7 AM, with a gust of 41 mph at 5 AM.
- Now
- 15mph
- from the northwest
- Strongest
- 28mph
- 7 AM
- Highest gust
- 41mph
- 5 AM
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.59 inHg at 4 PM, steady over 3 hours; 0.37 inHg higher than a day before.
- Now
- 30.59inHg
- 4 PM
- 3 hours
- -0.02inHg
- steady
- 24 hours
- +0.37inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 7 miles at 3 AM; 10 miles or more now.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 7mi
- 3 AM
- 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 1,300 ft at 4 AM; a base was reported in 21 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- -
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 1,300ft
- 4 AM
- Hours with a base reported
- 21
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
Precipitation
0.01 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.01 in, in the hour to 5 PM Thursday.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.01in
- Wettest hour
- 0.01in
- 5 PM Thursday
- Hours with some
- 3
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Yankton: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 4 instruments nearest Chan Gurney 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
YanktonYKN
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/1,278 ft/28 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Sd RWIS GayvilleSD532
Beside a road/9.0 mi away/1,161 ft/145 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Yankton 1.7 NNESD-YN-11
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/1,265 ft/41 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
YanktonYTNS2
At a cooperative observer's station/2.9 mi away/1,175 ft/131 ft below 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 Yankton (YTNS2), 2.9 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 Chan Gurney Municipal Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Yanktoncity, 3 mi
- Mission Hilltown, 5 mi
- Uticatown, 7 mi
- Volintown, 11 mi
- Gayvilletown, 11 mi
- Lestervilletown, 13 mi
- Jamesville Colonycommunity, 14 mi
- Tabortown, 14 mi
- Wakondatown, 16 mi
- Irenecity, 16 mi
- Bon Homme Colonycommunity, 17 mi
- Mecklingcommunity, 17 mi
Airports near Chan Gurney Municipal Airport
- Harold Davidson FieldVMR, 25 mi
- Wagner Municipal AirportAGZ, 47 mi
- Sioux Falls Regional AirportFSD, 56 mi
- Mitchell Municipal AirportMHE, 68 mi
- Madison Municipal AirportMDS, 77 mi
- Brookings Regional AirportBKX, 100 mi
- Wilder Airport6E5, 105 mi
- Huron Regional AirportHON, 110 mi