Sd RWIS HowardSD597
Beside a road/12.1 mi away/1,516 ft/115 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Weather/South Dakota/Cloverleaf Colony
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Cloverleaf Colony until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 11 degrees warmer: a high of 62° after 51° today.
Now. Cloverleaf Colony is 40° and partly cloudy at 7 AM. With the wind it feels like 29°. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northwest at 22 mph, gusting to 37 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 4 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 Thursday, near 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 62°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:45 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:29 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 0 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 7:00 AM in Cloverleaf Colony, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 20, good, led by fine particles. Read at 7 AM from its reporting area, Brookings (SD), 38 miles off.
Yesterday measured 32, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.04 in in the last 24 hours, 0.11 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 6 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Cloverleaf Colony, South DakotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Cloverleaf Colony, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 11.9 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Sd RWIS HowardSD597
Beside a road/12.1 mi away/1,516 ft/115 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Desmet6E5
At an airfield/17.2 mi away/1,726 ft/95 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station KF0AITKF0AIT
In a volunteer observer's own ground/38.9 mi away/1,670 ft/39 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Big Sioux River 10 SE BrookingsBRKS2
At a river or reservoir gauge/39.2 mi away/1,558 ft/73 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Howard 0.1 WSD-MN-18
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.9 mi away/1,573 ft/58 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
HowardHOWS2
At a cooperative observer's station/12.1 mi away/1,555 ft/76 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 17.2 mi from Cloverleaf Colony, South Dakota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 7:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 2,300 ft, scattered at 2,800 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
39.2 F with a dew point of 37.4 F, 93 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 400 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,300 ft.
From the north (350 degrees) at 21 mph, gusting 35 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 43 mph.
The full report of Desmet, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Howard (HOWS2), 12.1 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 09:41. measured daily
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.