VermillionVMR
At an airfield/1.8 mi away/1,145 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Golf courses/South Dakota/The Bluffs
The Bluffs, South Dakota
Golf course in Clay County, South Dakota* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 possible. * WHERE...Portions of northwest and west central Iowa, southwest Minnesota, northeast Nebraska, and east central and southeast South Dakota. * WHEN...From late Friday night through Saturday morning. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
46°
59°/45°
Overcast·
Feels like 39°·Moderate breeze 19 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for The Bluffs until 8 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. The Bluffs is 46° and overcast at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 39°. The dew point is 35°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 19 mph, gusting to 31 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 39° by 8 AM, under cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 52°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 23 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 5 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
28Air quality
61%Humidity
95%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
46feels39
19mph
Today
Oct 15
5945
96%
21mph
Fri
Oct 16
5239
23mph
Sat
Oct 17
6032
20mph
Sun
Oct 18
6641
16mph
Mon
Oct 19
6542
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7044
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7553
15%
46°
59°45°
52°39°
60°32°
66°41°
65°42°
70°44°
75°53°
As of 11:00 PM in The Bluffs, South Dakota.
Air quality
The air at The Bluffs
Index 28, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Vermillion (SD), 2 miles off.
28Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)28Good-
- Ozone21Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 24, good.
GoodModerate
- 24YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at The Bluffs
0.64 in in the last 24 hours, 0.66 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.64in
- Last 3 days
- 0.66in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 97%
Visibility
How far you can see at The Bluffs, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 10 miles Fri 4 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Golf course
- Area
- 0.26 sq mi
- County
- Clay County
- State
- South Dakota
- Latitude
- 42.7734° N
- Longitude
- 96.8996° W
Course map
What is measuring near here
The 4 instruments nearest The Bluffs, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
Sd RWIS GayvilleSD532
Beside a road/17.7 mi away/1,161 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Vermillion 1.4 SESD-CY-10
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.5 mi away/1,143 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
VermillionVRMS2
At a cooperative observer's station/1.3 mi away/1,138 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Vermillion (VRMS2), 1.3 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 15:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in South Dakota
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Near The Bluffs
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.