Sd RWIS WallaceSD587
Beside a road/12.2 mi away/1,811 ft/21 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Weather/South Dakota/Crocker
Special Weather Statement, in full
Alert. A Special Weather Statement is in force for Crocker 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 59° after 48° today.
Now. Crocker is 41° and mostly cloudy at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 30°. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northwest at 25 mph, gusting to 41 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 46° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 35° by 11 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 70°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 mph. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:45 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:26 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 58 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Crocker, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 18, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Watertown (SD), 35 miles off.
Yesterday measured 28, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.15 in in the last 24 hours, 0.17 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 Crocker, South DakotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Crocker, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
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Beside a road/12.2 mi away/1,811 ft/21 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station CW0121CW0121
In a volunteer observer's own ground/28.7 mi away/1,304 ft/486 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Big Sioux River 3 NW WatertownWBSS2
At a river or reservoir gauge/33.1 mi away/1,726 ft/64 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
WatertownATY
At an airfield/33.4 mi away/1,725 ft/65 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Raymond 9.1 NSD-CK-11
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.4 mi away/1,563 ft/227 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
TurtonTURS2
At a cooperative observer's station/15.9 mi away/1,325 ft/465 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 33.4 mi from Crocker, South Dakota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
A few clouds at 1,700 ft, broken at 3,100 ft, overcast at 3,800 ft; the ceiling is 3,100 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
41.0 F with a dew point of 37.0 F, 86 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 900 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,700 ft.
From the north (350 degrees) at 22 mph, gusting 33 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 47 mph.
The full report of Watertown, 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.