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temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Parks/South Dakota/Palisades State Park
Palisades State Park, South Dakota
State Park in Minnehaha 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.
45°
57°/42°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 37°·Moderate breeze 17 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Palisades State Park until 8 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Palisades State Park is 45° and mostly cloudy at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 37°. The dew point is 37°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 17 mph, gusting to 33 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 38° by 8 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. Air quality is moderate (index 52): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 51°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 23 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 30°.
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 4 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
52Air quality
69%Humidity
81%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
45feels37
17mph
Today
Oct 15
5742
89%
19mph
Fri
Oct 16
5139
23mph
Sat
Oct 17
6030
19mph
Sun
Oct 18
6639
16mph
Mon
Oct 19
6641
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7043
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7451
12mph
45°
57°42°
51°39°
60°30°
66°39°
66°41°
70°43°
74°51°
As of 11:00 PM in Palisades State Park, South Dakota.
Air quality
The air at Palisades State Park
Index 52, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Sioux Falls (SD), 14 miles off.
52Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)52Moderate-
- Ozone19Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)22Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 26, good.
GoodModerate
- 26YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Palisades State Park
0.65 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
- 0.65in
- Last 3 days
- 0.65in
Visibility
How far you can see at Palisades State Park, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 10 miles Sat 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 0.66 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,446 ft
- County
- Minnehaha County
- State
- South Dakota
- Latitude
- 43.7015° N
- Longitude
- 96.5114° W
What is measuring near here
The 8 instruments nearest Palisades State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.9 miles away.
measured now6 instruments
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.8 mi away/1,602 ft/156 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Sioux Falls 14 NNE04990
At a climate reference station/5.8 mi away/1,594 ft/148 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Citizen station FW9701FW9701
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.0 mi away/1,405 ft/41 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Sioux FallsFSD
At an airfield/14.9 mi away/1,407 ft/39 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Sd RWIS Dell RapidsSD520
Beside a road/15.7 mi away/1,591 ft/145 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Garretson 2.1 SSWSD-MH-19
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.9 mi away/1,496 ft/50 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Sioux FallsEROS2
At a cooperative observer's station/5.7 mi away/1,591 ft/145 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in South Dakota
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Near Palisades State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Garretsoncity, 1 mi
- Shermantown, 4 mi
- Brandoncity, 8 mi
- Valley Springscity, 9 mi
- Renner Cornercommunity, 10 mi
- Meadow View Additioncommunity, 11 mi
- Great Bearski area, 11 mi
- Balticcity, 12 mi
- Pine Lakes Additioncommunity, 12 mi
- Rowenacommunity, 13 mi
- Dell Rapidscity, 13 mi
- Andersoncommunity, 14 mi