Big Sioux River 3 NW WatertownWBSS2
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.2 mi away/1,726 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Beaches/South Dakota/Sunset Beach (historical)
Sunset Beach (historical), South Dakota
Beach in Codington County, South Dakota44°
57°/40°
Overcast·
Feels like 35°·Fresh breeze 21 mph NW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 9 degrees cooler: a high of 48° after 57° today.
Now. Sunset Beach (historical) is 44° and overcast at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 35°. The dew point is 38°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the northwest at 21 mph, gusting to 37 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 36° by 8 AM, under cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 48°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 24 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 32°.
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 1 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
27Air quality
79%Humidity
99%Cloud
Now
10:00 PM
44feels35
21mph
Today
Oct 15
5740
51%
24mph
Fri
Oct 16
4836
14%
24mph
Sat
Oct 17
5832
22mph
Sun
Oct 18
6442
16mph
Mon
Oct 19
6340
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6741
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7150
13mph
44°
57°40°
48°36°
58°32°
64°42°
63°40°
67°41°
71°50°
As of 10:00 PM in Sunset Beach (historical), South Dakota.
Air quality
The air at Sunset Beach (historical)
Index 27, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Watertown (SD), 6 miles off.
27Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)26Good-
- Ozone19Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)27Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 21, good.
GoodModerate
- 21YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Sunset Beach (historical)
0.13 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.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.13in
- Last 3 days
- 0.13in
Visibility
How far you can see at Sunset Beach (historical), the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 7 miles Thu 11 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Beach
- County
- Codington County
- State
- South Dakota
- Latitude
- 44.9416° N
- Longitude
- 97.2309° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Sunset Beach (historical), how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.4 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
WatertownATY
At an airfield/4.2 mi away/1,725 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Sd RWIS ClarkSD516
Beside a road/17.5 mi away/1,818 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Watertown 3.1 WSD-CD-10
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.4 mi away/1,730 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Rauville 2WRALS2
At a cooperative observer's station/5.2 mi away/1,736 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in South Dakota
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
AberdeencityBadlandsfeatureBelle FourchecityBlack Elk PeakfeatureBlack HillsfeatureBrookingscityCustercityDeadwoodcityGreat Bearski areaHot SpringscityHuroncityLake OahefeatureLeadcityMitchellcityPierrecityRapid CitycitySioux FallscitySpearfishcitySturgiscityTerry Peakski areaVermillioncityWatertowncityWind Cave National ParkfeatureYanktoncity
Near Sunset Beach (historical)
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Watertowncity, 6 mi
- Florencetown, 9 mi
- Henrytown, 12 mi
- Waverlycommunity, 13 mi
- Hazeltown, 15 mi
- Wallacetown, 16 mi
- Kranzburgtown, 16 mi
- Garden Citytown, 17 mi
- Castlewoodcity, 18 mi
- Naplestown, 18 mi
- South Shoretown, 19 mi
- Goodwintown, 19 mi
Beaches near Sunset Beach (historical)
- Hartford Beach State Park42 mi
- South Beach44 mi
- North Beach44 mi
- Lake Louise Beach96 mi
- stockdam shore103 mi
- Lake Alvin Beach108 mi
- Hobie Cat Beach144 mi
- Pebble Beach144 mi