Sd RWIS Ree HeightsSD607
Beside a road/7.2 mi away/1,699 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Beaches/South Dakota/Lake Louise Beach
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Lake Louise Beach until 4 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 10 degrees cooler: a high of 49° after 59° today.
Now. Lake Louise Beach is 43° and mostly cloudy at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 34°. The dew point is 37°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the northwest at 24 mph, gusting to 37 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 36° by 8 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 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 49°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 26 mph. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 36°.
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. 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 10:00 PM in Lake Louise Beach, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 21, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Pierre (SD), 59 miles off.
Yesterday measured 37, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.15 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 7 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 5 instruments nearest Lake Louise Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Sd RWIS Ree HeightsSD607
Beside a road/7.2 mi away/1,699 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Huron RAWSRHUS2
A remote fire weather station/32.1 mi away/1,900 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Redfield1D8
At an airfield/34.1 mi away/1,302 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Miller 7.2 NWSD-HD-18
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.1 mi away/1,563 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Monitor Precip Run To Litl Wolf CRKRHTS2
At a cooperative observer's station/7.7 mi away/1,693 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.