Sd RWIS Platte-Winner BridgeSD554
Beside a road/8.9 mi away/1,404 ft/476 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Weather/South Dakota/Bijou Hills
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Bijou Hills until 4 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 16 degrees warmer: a high of 66° after 50° today.
Now. Bijou Hills is 44° and overcast at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 35°. The dew point is 38°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the northwest at 23 mph, gusting to 39 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 49° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 37° by 1 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 74°, and the coolest Monday, near 64°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:52 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:39 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 11 hours 1 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Bijou Hills, South Dakota.
Precipitation
0.15 in in the last 24 hours, 0.16 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 7 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Bijou Hills, South DakotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Bijou Hills, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.9 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Sd RWIS Platte-Winner BridgeSD554
Beside a road/8.9 mi away/1,404 ft/476 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Chamberlain9V9
At an airfield/19.5 mi away/1,672 ft/208 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Lake Andes RAWSRLAS2
A remote fire weather station/26.0 mi away/1,709 ft/171 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Academy 2.2 NNWSD-CM-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.9 mi away/1,684 ft/196 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
AcademyACYS2
On a college campus/4.0 mi away/1,670 ft/210 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 19.5 mi from Bijou Hills, South Dakota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 2,400 ft; the ceiling is 2,400 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
46.0 F with a dew point of 37.4 F, 72 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,000 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,400 ft.
From the north northwest (330 degrees) at 25 mph, gusting 40 mph: force 6, a strong breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 40 mph.
The full report of Chamberlain, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Academy (ACYS2), 4.0 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 09:00. 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.