Citizen station DW0687DW0687
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.0 mi away/1,500 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Theme parks/South Dakota/Wild Water West Waterpark
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Wild Water West Waterpark until 8 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Wild Water West Waterpark is 46° and mostly cloudy at 9 PM. With the wind it feels like 39°. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 16 mph, gusting to 32 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 39° by 8 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
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 24 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 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 5 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Wild Water West Waterpark, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 34, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Sioux Falls (SD), 10 miles off.
Yesterday measured 26, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
0.75 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.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 10 miles Fri 2 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 8 instruments nearest Wild Water West Waterpark, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.3 miles away.
measured now6 instruments
Citizen station DW0687DW0687
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.0 mi away/1,500 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Sioux FallsFSD
At an airfield/8.5 mi away/1,407 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Sd RWIS ParkerSD605
Beside a road/13.2 mi away/1,299 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Sioux Falls 14 NNE04990
At a climate reference station/20.6 mi away/1,594 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Sioux Falls 14NESUFS2
At a river or reservoir gauge/20.8 mi away/1,594 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Eros Data CenterS2072
At a soil climate station/21.5 mi away/1,551 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Sioux Falls 5.2 WSWSD-MH-139
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.3 mi away/1,499 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/9.9 mi away/1,427 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Sioux Falls NWS Wfo AP (FSDS2), 9.9 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 19:00. 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.