Beside a road/10.3 mi away/1,112 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Golf courses/South Dakota/The Pointe Golf & Event Center
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for The Pointe Golf & Event Center until 8 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. The Pointe Golf & Event Center is 45° and partly cloudy at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 37°. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the northwest at 20 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 41° by 8 AM, with some 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 51°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 24 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. The day is 11 hours 6 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in The Pointe Golf & Event Center, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 28, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Vermillion (SD), 15 miles off.
Yesterday measured 24, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.79 in in the last 24 hours, 0.81 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 4 instruments nearest The Pointe Golf & Event Center, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
Beside a road/10.3 mi away/1,112 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
VermillionVMR
At an airfield/14.6 mi away/1,145 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Elk Point 0.9 SSESD-UN-17
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.4 mi away/1,125 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
VermillionVRMS2
At a cooperative observer's station/13.8 mi away/1,138 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Vermillion (VRMS2), 13.8 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 15:00. 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.