Sd RWIS Lake CitySD586
Beside a road/4.6 mi away/1,847 ft/18 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Weather/South Dakota/Clear Lake
Special Weather Statement, in full
Alert. A Special Weather Statement is in force for Clear Lake until 7 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 11 degrees warmer: a high of 58° after 47° today.
Now. Clear Lake is 40° and mostly cloudy at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 29°. The dew point is 37°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northwest at 24 mph, gusting to 37 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 44° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 35° by 10 PM, 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 69°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 24 mph. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:42 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:21 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 56 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Clear Lake, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 18, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Watertown (SD), 55 miles off.
Yesterday measured 28, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.20 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 10 miles Fri 3 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Clear Lake, South DakotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Clear Lake, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.6 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Sd RWIS Lake CitySD586
Beside a road/4.6 mi away/1,847 ft/18 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Marshall County RAWSMRLS2
A remote fire weather station/9.7 mi away/1,982 ft/153 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Sisseton8D3
At an airfield/17.1 mi away/1,154 ft/675 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Lake City 3.7 SWSD-MR-17
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.5 mi away/1,812 ft/17 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Obs Roy Lake Recreation AreaROYS2
At a cooperative observer's station/5.5 mi away/1,798 ft/31 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 17.1 mi from Clear Lake, South Dakota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:56 AM local time: 3 of its 5 sheets.
43.0 F with a dew point of 37.0 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.
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 26 mph, gusting 41 mph: force 6, a strong breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 49 mph.
At 1,154 ft above sea level, 4 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 28.69 inHg and the temperature at 54.9 F; the station's altimeter setting of 30.34 inHg means its barometer reads 29.10 inHg; it reports 43.0 F, 11.9 F colder than standard.
The full report of Sisseton, in 5 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.