Sd RWIS MilbankSD594
Beside a road/12.2 mi away/1,079 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Beaches/South Dakota/Hartford Beach State Park
Coming up. Tomorrow is 10 degrees cooler: a high of 49° after 59° today.
Now. Hartford Beach State Park is 45° and overcast at 9 PM. With the wind it feels like 36°. The dew point is 43°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the northwest at 20 mph, gusting to 37 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 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 49°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 24 mph. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 36°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% 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 0 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Hartford Beach State Park, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 34, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Watertown (SD), 41 miles off.
Yesterday measured 21, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
0.31 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 4 miles Thu 10 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 5 instruments nearest Hartford Beach State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 8.4 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Sd RWIS MilbankSD594
Beside a road/12.2 mi away/1,079 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Milbank1D1
At an airfield/13.1 mi away/1,122 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Marvin 9SWMVNS2
At a river or reservoir gauge/24.9 mi away/1,924 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Big Stone City 5.0 WNWSD-GT-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.4 mi away/1,142 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
WilmotWMTS2
At a cooperative observer's station/8.8 mi away/1,198 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.