WatertownATY
At an airfield/4.6 mi away/1,725 ft/3 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Parks/South Dakota/Sandy Shore State Recreation Area
Sandy Shore State Recreation Area, South Dakota
State Recreation Area in Codington County, South Dakota45°
57°/40°
Overcast·
Feels like 37°·Fresh breeze 22 mph NW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 9 degrees cooler: a high of 48° after 57° today.
Now. Sandy Shore State Recreation Area is 45° and overcast at 9 PM. With the wind it feels like 37°. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the northwest at 22 mph, gusting to 44 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 36° by 8 AM, under cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 48°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 24 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 32°.
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.
0UV Low
34Air quality
68%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
9:00 PM
45feels37
22mph
Today
Oct 15
5740
52%
24mph
Fri
Oct 16
4836
14%
24mph
Sat
Oct 17
5832
22mph
Sun
Oct 18
6442
16mph
Mon
Oct 19
6340
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6741
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7150
13mph
45°
57°40°
48°36°
58°32°
64°42°
63°40°
67°41°
71°50°
As of 9:00 PM in Sandy Shore State Recreation Area, South Dakota.
Air quality
The air at Sandy Shore State Recreation Area
Index 34, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Watertown (SD), 5 miles off.
34Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)34Good5.4 mi
- Ozone20Good22 ppb5.4 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)29Good5.4 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 21, good.
GoodModerate
- 21YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Sandy Shore State Recreation Area
0.19 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.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.19in
- Last 3 days
- 0.19in
Visibility
How far you can see at Sandy Shore State Recreation Area, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 4 miles Fri 12 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Recreation Area
- Area
- 435,000 sq ft
- Height at its point
- 1,722 ft
- County
- Codington County
- State
- South Dakota
- Latitude
- 44.8952° N
- Longitude
- 97.2443° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Sandy Shore State Recreation Area, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.8 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Big Sioux River 3 NW WatertownWBSS2
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.8 mi away/1,726 ft/4 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Sd RWIS ClarkSD516
Beside a road/16.3 mi away/1,818 ft/96 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Watertown 3.2 WSWSD-CD-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.8 mi away/1,747 ft/25 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
WatertownWATS2
At a cooperative observer's station/6.4 mi away/1,768 ft/46 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
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Sandy Shore State Recreation Area
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Watertowncity, 6 mi
- Henrytown, 11 mi
- Hazeltown, 12 mi
- Florencetown, 12 mi
- Waverlycommunity, 15 mi
- Naplestown, 16 mi
- Castlewoodcity, 16 mi
- Kranzburgtown, 16 mi
- Haytitown, 17 mi
- Garden Citytown, 17 mi
- Wallacetown, 17 mi
- Silver Lake Colonycommunity, 18 mi