Sd RWIS Lake CitySD586
Beside a road/9.6 mi away/1,847 ft/86 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Parks/South Dakota/Sica Hollow State Park
Coming up. Tomorrow is 10 degrees cooler: a high of 47° after 57° today.
Now. Sica Hollow State Park is 41° and overcast at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 32°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the northwest at 22 mph, gusting to 35 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 35° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 70°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 47°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 25 mph. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 34°.
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 10 hours 59 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Sica Hollow State Park, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 23, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Watertown (SD), 59 miles off.
Yesterday measured 21, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.12 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.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Thu 11 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 5 instruments nearest Sica Hollow State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.0 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Sd RWIS Lake CitySD586
Beside a road/9.6 mi away/1,847 ft/86 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Marshall County RAWSMRLS2
A remote fire weather station/11.4 mi away/1,982 ft/221 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Sisseton8D3
At an airfield/12.7 mi away/1,154 ft/607 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Sisseton 6.1 WSD-RB-16
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.0 mi away/2,019 ft/258 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
SissetonSSSS2
At a cooperative observer's station/10.6 mi away/1,217 ft/544 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Sisseton (SSSS2), 10.6 miles from here, read 8 Oct, 22:00. measured daily
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.