Sd RWIS AltamontSD593
Beside a road/8.4 mi away/1,732 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Golf courses/South Dakota/Prairie Dunes Golf Course
Coming up. Tomorrow is 9 degrees cooler: a high of 49° after 58° today.
Now. Prairie Dunes Golf Course is 43° and overcast at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 35°. The dew point is 39°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the northwest at 20 mph, gusting to 35 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. 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 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 1 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Prairie Dunes Golf Course, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 23, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Watertown (SD), 13 miles off.
Yesterday measured 21, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.05 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 4 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 4 miles Fri 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Prairie Dunes Golf Course, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Sd RWIS AltamontSD593
Beside a road/8.4 mi away/1,732 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Precip At Waverly445959096582600
At a river or reservoir gauge/10.4 mi away/1,988 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
WatertownATY
At an airfield/14.9 mi away/1,725 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station KF0AITKF0AIT
In a volunteer observer's own ground/39.9 mi away/1,670 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Clear Lake 6.3 WNWSD-DL-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.1 mi away/1,996 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Watertown-23MI.EseCLKS2
At a cooperative observer's station/12.1 mi away/1,785 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Watertown-23MI.Ese (CLKS2), 12.1 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. 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.