WatertownATY
At an airfield/2.5 mi away/1,725 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Golf courses/South Dakota/Prairie Winds Golf Club
Coming up. Tomorrow is 9 degrees cooler: a high of 48° after 57° today.
Now. Prairie Winds Golf Club is 44° and overcast at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 36°. The dew point is 38°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the northwest at 21 mph, gusting to 35 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 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 Winds Golf Club, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 23, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Watertown (SD), 4 miles off.
Yesterday measured 21, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.20 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 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 5 instruments nearest Prairie Winds Golf Club, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.7 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
WatertownATY
At an airfield/2.5 mi away/1,725 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Big Sioux River 3 NW WatertownWBSS2
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.8 mi away/1,726 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Sd RWIS ClarkSD516
Beside a road/18.3 mi away/1,818 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Watertown 1.2 WSD-CD-34
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/1,747 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
WatertownWATS2
At a cooperative observer's station/4.4 mi away/1,768 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.