BrookingsBKX
At an airfield/10.0 mi away/1,609 ft/12 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Weather/South Dakota/Bruce
Bruce, South Dakota
City in Brookings County, South Dakota* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 expected. * WHERE...Portions of northwest and west central Iowa, southwest Minnesota, northeast Nebraska, and east central and southeast South Dakota. * WHEN...From midnight tonight to 9 AM CDT Saturday. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
46°
51°/37°
Clear·
Feels like 40°·Moderate breeze 14 mph N
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Bruce until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Bruce is 46° and clear at 1 PM. With the wind it feels like 40°. The dew point is 29°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north at 14 mph, gusting to 25 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 33° by 1 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 Thursday, near 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:42 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:25 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 59 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
4UV Moderate
30Air quality
49%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
1:00 PM
46feels40
14mph
Today
Oct 16
5137
24mph
Sat
Oct 17
5832
21mph
Sun
Oct 18
6242
16mph
Mon
Oct 19
6241
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6643
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7050
12mph
Thu
Oct 22
7151
overcast
46°
51°37°
58°32°
62°42°
62°41°
66°43°
70°50°
71°51°
As of 1:00 PM in Bruce, South Dakota.
Air quality
The air at Bruce
Index 30, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 PM from its reporting area, Brookings (SD), 8 miles off.
30Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)30Good7.5 mi
- Ozone24Good27 ppb7.5 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)14Good7.5 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 32, good.
GoodModerate
- 32YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Bruce
0.01 in in the last 24 hours, 0.08 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.01in
- Last 3 days
- 0.08in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 13%
Visibility
How far you can see at Bruce, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 7 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Bruce, South DakotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Bruce, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Rank106of 806
Citizen station KF0AITKF0AIT
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.3 mi away/1,670 ft/49 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Sd RWIS ArlingtonSD504
Beside a road/15.2 mi away/1,791 ft/170 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Big Sioux River 10 SE BrookingsBRKS2
At a river or reservoir gauge/19.2 mi away/1,558 ft/63 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Bruce 0.2 SSWSD-BK-37
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.2 mi away/1,634 ft/13 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
BrookingsBROS2
At a cooperative observer's station/10.4 mi away/1,650 ft/29 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Brookings, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 10.0 mi from Bruce, South Dakota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:56 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
47.0 F with a dew point of 29.0 F, 49 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 4,100 ft up.
The wind
From the north northwest (330 degrees) at 16 mph, gusting 25 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 41 mph.
The full report of Brookings, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Brookings (BROS2), 10.4 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in South Dakota
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.