MadisonMDS
At an airfield/4.8 mi away/1,709 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Golf courses/South Dakota/Madison Golf & Country Club
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Madison Golf & Country Club until 8 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 8 degrees cooler: a high of 48° after 56° today.
Now. Madison Golf & Country Club is 43° and overcast at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 35°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the northwest at 20 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 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 48°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 23 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 31°.
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 south-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 3 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Madison Golf & Country Club, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 42, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Brookings (SD), 30 miles off.
Yesterday measured 21, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.22 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 8 instruments nearest Madison Golf & Country Club, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.6 miles away.
measured now6 instruments
MadisonMDS
At an airfield/4.8 mi away/1,709 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Sd RWIS MadisonSD636
Beside a road/5.5 mi away/1,667 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Big Sioux River 10 SE BrookingsBRKS2
At a river or reservoir gauge/24.5 mi away/1,558 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station KF0AITKF0AIT
In a volunteer observer's own ground/28.6 mi away/1,670 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Sioux Falls 14 NNE04990
At a climate reference station/34.1 mi away/1,594 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Eros Data CenterS2072
At a soil climate station/34.1 mi away/1,551 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
MadisonMRFS2
At a cooperative observer's station/2.6 mi away/1,742 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Madison 0.8 SSD-LK-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.8 mi away/1,673 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Madison (MRFS2), 2.6 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 09:00. measured daily
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.