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Beside a road/4.8 mi away/1,299 ft/60 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Weather/South Dakota/Chancellor
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Chancellor until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 8 degrees warmer: a high of 61° after 53° today.
Now. Chancellor is 44° and overcast at 4 AM. With the wind it feels like 35°. The dew point is 38°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northwest at 23 mph, gusting to 36 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 51° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 35° 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 Wednesday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 61°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 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 10:30 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in Chancellor, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 16, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Sioux Falls (SD), 19 miles off.
Yesterday measured 32, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.66 in in the last 24 hours, 0.70 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Chancellor, South DakotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 8 instruments nearest Chancellor, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.8 miles away.
measured now6 instruments
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Beside a road/4.8 mi away/1,299 ft/60 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station K1HSC-0K1HSC-0
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.9 mi away/1,492 ft/133 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Sioux FallsFSD
At an airfield/18.4 mi away/1,407 ft/48 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Sioux Falls 14 NNE04990
At a climate reference station/30.8 mi away/1,594 ft/235 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Sioux Falls 14NESUFS2
At a river or reservoir gauge/31.0 mi away/1,594 ft/235 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Eros Data CenterS2072
At a soil climate station/31.7 mi away/1,551 ft/192 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Lennox 0.5 SESD-LN-48
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.1 mi away/1,339 ft/20 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Sioux Falls-27MI.WswMARS2
At a cooperative observer's station/14.0 mi away/1,450 ft/91 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 18.4 mi from Chancellor, South Dakota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:56 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 1,700 ft, overcast at 2,400 ft; the ceiling is 2,400 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
46.0 F with a dew point of 41.0 F, 83 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,100 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,700 ft.
From the north northwest (330 degrees) at 25 mph, gusting 37 mph: force 6, a strong breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 39 mph.
The full report of Sioux Falls, 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.