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Beside a road/9.7 mi away/1,493 ft/3 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Weather/South Dakota/Deerfield Colony
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Deerfield Colony until 4 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 9 degrees cooler: a high of 49° after 58° today.
Now. Deerfield Colony is 43° and mostly cloudy at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 34°. The dew point is 39°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the northwest at 23 mph, gusting to 38 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 35° by 8 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 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 49°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 25 mph. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 34°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 59 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Deerfield Colony, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 17, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Aberdeen (SD), 21 miles off.
Yesterday measured 18, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.30 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 7 miles Fri 3 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Deerfield Colony, South DakotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Deerfield Colony, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.2 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
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Beside a road/9.7 mi away/1,493 ft/3 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station EW9368EW9368
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.9 mi away/1,389 ft/101 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Aberdeen 35 WNW54933
At a climate reference station/13.7 mi away/1,957 ft/467 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Aberdeen 35WNWABNS2
At a river or reservoir gauge/14.1 mi away/1,939 ft/449 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
AberdeenABR
At an airfield/25.0 mi away/1,296 ft/194 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Aberdeen 14.7 WNWSD-ED-19
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.2 mi away/1,454 ft/36 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
IpswitchIPSS2
At a cooperative observer's station/11.8 mi away/1,549 ft/59 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 25.0 mi from Deerfield Colony, South Dakota. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:07 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
A few clouds at 2,600 ft, scattered at 3,100 ft, broken at 6,500 ft; the ceiling is 6,500 ft.
45.0 F with a dew point of 39.0 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; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,600 ft.
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 23 mph, gusting 37 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 47 mph.
The full report of Aberdeen, 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.