SD RWIS MelletteSD043
Beside a road/9.3 mi away/1,299 ft/level with here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Weather/South Dakota/Brentford
Coming up. Tomorrow is 10 degrees cooler: a high of 50° after 60° today.
Now. Brentford is 43° and overcast at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 34°. The dew point is 40°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the northwest at 25 mph, gusting to 38 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 35° 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 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 50°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 25 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 32°.
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. The day is 11 hours 0 minutes long, 4 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Brentford, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 14, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Aberdeen (SD), 23 miles off.
Yesterday measured 18, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.18 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 Fri 2 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Brentford, South DakotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Brentford, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
SD RWIS MelletteSD043
Beside a road/9.3 mi away/1,299 ft/level with here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
AberdeenABR
At an airfield/20.7 mi away/1,296 ft/3 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW1482DW1482
In a volunteer observer's own ground/21.2 mi away/1,302 ft/3 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At a river or reservoir gauge/32.4 mi away/1,345 ft/46 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Stratford 3.6 SSWSD-BR-51
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.8 mi away/1,295 ft/4 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
MelletteMELS2
At a cooperative observer's station/8.7 mi away/1,293 ft/6 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 20.7 mi from Brentford, South Dakota. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 2,400 ft, overcast at 3,400 ft; the ceiling is 2,400 ft.
46.0 F with a dew point of 40.0 F, 79 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,400 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,400 ft.
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 21 mph, gusting 33 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 47 mph.
The full report of Aberdeen, 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.