Sd RWIS DolandSD613
Beside a road/7.4 mi away/1,289 ft/7 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Parks/South Dakota/Fisher Grove State Park
Coming up. Tomorrow is 11 degrees cooler: a high of 50° after 61° today.
Now. Fisher Grove State Park is 46° and overcast at 9 PM. With the wind it feels like 37°. The dew point is 39°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Strong breeze from the northwest at 25 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 36° 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 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 50°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 26 mph. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 36°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 9:00 PM in Fisher Grove State Park, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 26, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Aberdeen (SD), 40 miles off.
Yesterday measured 18, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
0.15 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 1 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 5 instruments nearest Fisher Grove State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.0 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Sd RWIS DolandSD613
Beside a road/7.4 mi away/1,289 ft/7 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Redfield1D8
At an airfield/8.1 mi away/1,302 ft/20 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW1482DW1482
In a volunteer observer's own ground/39.2 mi away/1,302 ft/20 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Redfield 3.9 ESD-SP-11
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.0 mi away/1,295 ft/13 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
DolandDOLS2
At a cooperative observer's station/13.0 mi away/1,348 ft/66 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Doland (DOLS2), 13.0 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. 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.