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Beside a road/10.7 mi away/2,208 ft/19 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Weather/South Dakota/Burke
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Burke 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 65° after 49° today.
Now. Burke is 40° and overcast at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 29°. The dew point is 34°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Strong breeze from the north-northwest at 26 mph, gusting to 40 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 48° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° 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 74°, and the coolest Monday, near 63°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 mph. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:53 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:41 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 2 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Burke, South Dakota.
Precipitation
0.08 in in the last 24 hours, 0.11 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 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 Burke, South DakotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Burke, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
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Beside a road/10.7 mi away/2,208 ft/19 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Lake Andes RAWSRLAS2
A remote fire weather station/27.3 mi away/1,709 ft/480 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
WinnerICR
At an airfield/31.1 mi away/2,008 ft/181 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Burke 0.4 SESD-GY-30
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.5 mi away/2,216 ft/27 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Winner 24MI.SeGRGS2
At a cooperative observer's station/8.0 mi away/2,162 ft/27 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 31.1 mi from Burke, South Dakota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
A few clouds at 1,900 ft, broken at 2,500 ft, overcast at 3,000 ft; the ceiling is 2,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
41.0 F with a dew point of 38.0 F, 89 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 700 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,900 ft.
From the north northwest (330 degrees) at 24 mph, gusting 39 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 47 mph.
The full report of Winner, 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.