Sd RWIS MadisonSD636
Beside a road/7.7 mi away/1,667 ft/54 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Weather/South Dakota/Brant Lake
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Brant Lake until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 10 degrees warmer: a high of 59° after 49° today.
Now. Brant Lake is 43° and overcast at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 35°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 19 mph, gusting to 33 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 48° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 12 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 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:43 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:28 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 Brant Lake, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 30, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Sioux Falls (SD), 29 miles off.
Yesterday measured 26, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.42 in in the last 24 hours, 0.45 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Brant Lake, South DakotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 8 instruments nearest Brant Lake, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.2 miles away.
measured now6 instruments
Sd RWIS MadisonSD636
Beside a road/7.7 mi away/1,667 ft/54 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
MadisonMDS
At an airfield/9.2 mi away/1,709 ft/96 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Big Sioux River 10 SE BrookingsBRKS2
At a river or reservoir gauge/19.8 mi away/1,558 ft/55 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Eros Data CenterS2072
At a soil climate station/21.2 mi away/1,551 ft/62 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Sioux Falls 14 NNE04990
At a climate reference station/21.3 mi away/1,594 ft/19 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Citizen station KF0AITKF0AIT
In a volunteer observer's own ground/26.9 mi away/1,670 ft/57 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Wentworth 4.7 SSWSD-LK-12
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.2 mi away/1,625 ft/12 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
ColtonCOLS2
At a cooperative observer's station/10.3 mi away/1,631 ft/18 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 9.2 mi from Brant Lake, South Dakota. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 2,300 ft; the ceiling is 2,300 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
44.6 F with a dew point of 41.0 F, 87 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 800 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,300 ft.
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 24 mph, gusting 33 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 39 mph.
The full report of Madison, 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.