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Beside a road/10.6 mi away/1,683 ft/40 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Parks/South Dakota/Oakwood Lakes State Park
Oakwood Lakes State Park, South Dakota
State Park in Brookings 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.
43°
57°/41°
Overcast·
Feels like 34°·Fresh breeze 20 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Oakwood Lakes State Park until 8 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 8 degrees cooler: a high of 49° after 57° today.
Now. Oakwood Lakes State Park is 43° and overcast at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 34°. The dew point is 39°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the northwest at 20 mph, gusting to 31 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 37° by 8 AM, under cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 49°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 25 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. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 11 hours 2 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
42Air quality
82%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
43feels34
20mph
Today
Oct 15
5741
63%
24mph
Fri
Oct 16
4937
11%
25mph
Sat
Oct 17
5931
22mph
Sun
Oct 18
6541
17mph
Mon
Oct 19
6440
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6842
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7250
14mph
43°
57°41°
49°37°
59°31°
65°41°
64°40°
68°42°
72°50°
As of 11:00 PM in Oakwood Lakes State Park, South Dakota.
Air quality
The air at Oakwood Lakes State Park
Index 42, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Brookings (SD), 13 miles off.
42Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)42Good12.6 mi
- Ozone19Good19 ppb12.6 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)29Good12.6 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 21, good.
GoodModerate
- 21YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Oakwood Lakes State Park
0.09 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.09in
- Last 3 days
- 0.09in
Visibility
How far you can see at Oakwood Lakes State Park, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 6 miles Fri 1 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 0.45 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,643 ft
- County
- Brookings County
- State
- South Dakota
- Latitude
- 44.4596° N
- Longitude
- 97.0076° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Oakwood Lakes State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
BrookingsBKX
At an airfield/14.2 mi away/1,609 ft/34 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station KF0AITKF0AIT
In a volunteer observer's own ground/16.1 mi away/1,670 ft/27 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Big Sioux River 10 SE BrookingsBRKS2
At a river or reservoir gauge/23.2 mi away/1,558 ft/85 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Bruce 5.3 WSD-BK-45
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.0 mi away/1,650 ft/7 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
BrookingsBROS2
At a cooperative observer's station/15.5 mi away/1,650 ft/7 ft above 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 Brookings (BROS2), 15.5 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in South Dakota
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Oakwood Lakes State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Brucecity, 6 mi
- Arlingtoncity, 9 mi
- Estellinecity, 10 mi
- Badgertown, 10 mi
- Lake Poinsettcommunity, 10 mi
- Volgacity, 11 mi
- Hetlandtown, 13 mi
- Lake Nordencity, 13 mi
- Poinsett Colonycommunity, 14 mi
- Brookingscity, 15 mi
- Sinaitown, 15 mi
- Haytitown, 17 mi