Sd RWIS MilbankSD594
Beside a road/12.2 mi away/1,079 ft/84 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Parks/South Dakota/Hartford Beach State Park
Coming up. Tomorrow is 13 degrees warmer: a high of 65° after 52° today.
Now. Hartford Beach State Park is 40° and mostly cloudy at 9 AM. With the wind it feels like 31°. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northwest at 19 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 37° by 11 PM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 65°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:40 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:20 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 10 hours 57 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 AM in Hartford Beach State Park, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 22, good, led by ozone. Read at 8 AM from its reporting area, Watertown (SD), 41 miles off.
Yesterday measured 28, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.10 in in the last 24 hours, 0.32 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 8 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 5 instruments nearest Hartford Beach State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 8.4 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Sd RWIS MilbankSD594
Beside a road/12.2 mi away/1,079 ft/84 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Milbank1D1
At an airfield/13.1 mi away/1,122 ft/127 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Marvin 9SWMVNS2
At a river or reservoir gauge/24.9 mi away/1,924 ft/929 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Big Stone City 5.0 WNWSD-GT-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.4 mi away/1,142 ft/147 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
WilmotWMTS2
At a cooperative observer's station/8.8 mi away/1,198 ft/203 ft above 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.