Eros Data CenterS2072
At a soil climate station/5.9 mi away/1,551 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Golf courses/South Dakota/River Ridge Golf Course
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for River Ridge Golf Course until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 9 degrees warmer: a high of 59° after 50° today.
Now. River Ridge Golf Course is 44° and mostly cloudy at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 36°. The dew point is 39°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 18 mph, gusting to 30 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 49° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 1 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 29°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:41 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:27 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 11 hours 1 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in River Ridge Golf Course, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 30, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Sioux Falls (SD), 14 miles off.
Yesterday measured 26, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.65 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 10 miles Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 8 instruments nearest River Ridge Golf Course, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.8 miles away.
measured now6 instruments
Eros Data CenterS2072
At a soil climate station/5.9 mi away/1,551 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.1 mi away/1,602 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Sioux Falls 14 NNE04990
At a climate reference station/6.1 mi away/1,594 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Citizen station FW9701FW9701
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.0 mi away/1,405 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Sioux FallsFSD
At an airfield/15.0 mi away/1,407 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Sd RWIS Dell RapidsSD520
Beside a road/16.0 mi away/1,591 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Garretson 2.1 SSWSD-MH-19
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.8 mi away/1,496 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Sioux FallsEROS2
At a cooperative observer's station/6.1 mi away/1,591 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.