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Beside a road/3.5 mi away/1,824 ft/49 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Weather/South Dakota/Akaska
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Akaska until 4 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 15 degrees warmer: a high of 65° after 50° today.
Now. Akaska is 42° and overcast at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 32°. The dew point is 35°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Strong breeze from the north-northwest at 27 mph, gusting to 43 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 47° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 71°, and the coolest Monday, near 62°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:54 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:34 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 12:00 AM in Akaska, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 28, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Pierre (SD), 67 miles off.
Yesterday measured 37, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Akaska, South DakotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Akaska, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.5 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
SD RWIS LowrySD039
Beside a road/3.5 mi away/1,824 ft/49 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
MobridgeMBG
At an airfield/20.4 mi away/1,690 ft/85 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
At a river or reservoir gauge/33.8 mi away/1,690 ft/85 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Selby 13.8 SWSD-WL-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.6 mi away/1,842 ft/67 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Mobridge-20MI.ESBYS2
At a cooperative observer's station/12.4 mi away/1,864 ft/89 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 20.4 mi from Akaska, South Dakota. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:52 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 2,400 ft; the ceiling is 2,400 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
45.0 F with a dew point of 37.0 F, 73 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,800 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,400 ft.
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 22 mph, gusting 39 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 54 mph.
The full report of Mobridge, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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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.