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Beside a road/11.8 mi away/1,385 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Beaches/South Dakota/North Beach
Special Weather Statement, in full
Alert. A Special Weather Statement is in force for North Beach until 7 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 12 degrees warmer: a high of 61° after 49° today.
Now. North Beach is 41° and overcast at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 31°. The dew point is 40°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Strong breeze from the north-northwest at 26 mph, gusting to 40 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 47° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 35° by 11 PM, 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 61°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:40 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:19 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 10 hours 57 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in North Beach, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 18, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Watertown (SD), 45 miles off.
Yesterday measured 28, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.24 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 1 AM. 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 North Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.6 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Sd RWIS PeeverSD552
Beside a road/11.8 mi away/1,385 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Sisseton8D3
At an airfield/17.0 mi away/1,154 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Marvin 9SWMVNS2
At a river or reservoir gauge/27.0 mi away/1,924 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Wilmot 8.2 NNESD-RB-9
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.6 mi away/1,010 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
WilmotWMTS2
At a cooperative observer's station/7.6 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.