Sd RWIS Lake CitySD586
Beside a road/2.9 mi away/1,847 ft/37 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Parks/South Dakota/Roy Lake State Park
Coming up. Tomorrow is 13 degrees warmer: a high of 62° after 49° today.
Now. Roy Lake State Park is 37° and mostly cloudy at 7 AM. With the wind it feels like 27°. The dew point is 31°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north at 20 mph, gusting to 31 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 47° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 38° by 9 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 70°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 62°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 24 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:43 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:21 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 7:00 AM in Roy Lake State Park, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 6, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 7 AM from its reporting area, Aberdeen (SD), 52 miles off.
Yesterday measured 18, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.09 in in the last 24 hours, 0.15 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 6 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 10 miles Fri 9 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Roy Lake State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Sd RWIS Lake CitySD586
Beside a road/2.9 mi away/1,847 ft/37 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Marshall County RAWSMRLS2
A remote fire weather station/6.4 mi away/1,982 ft/172 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
BrittonBTN
At an airfield/14.5 mi away/1,305 ft/505 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station CW0121CW0121
In a volunteer observer's own ground/35.5 mi away/1,304 ft/506 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Obs Roy Lake Recreation AreaROYS2
At a cooperative observer's station/1.6 mi away/1,798 ft/12 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Lake City 3.7 SWSD-MR-17
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.5 mi away/1,812 ft/2 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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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.