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Beside a road/8.8 mi away/1,591 ft/108 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Weather/South Dakota/Delmont
Coming up. Tomorrow is 12 degrees warmer: a high of 62° after 50° today.
Now. Delmont is 44° and overcast at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 35°. The dew point is 38°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the northwest at 24 mph, gusting to 39 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° 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 75°, 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 6:48 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:36 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 2 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Delmont, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 23, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Santee Sioux Reservation (NE), 34 miles off.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.22 in in the last 24 hours, 0.24 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 2 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Delmont, South DakotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Delmont, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
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Beside a road/8.8 mi away/1,591 ft/108 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
WagnerAGZ
At an airfield/15.5 mi away/1,467 ft/16 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Fort Randall DamFRDS2
At a dam/26.0 mi away/1,342 ft/141 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW4826GW4826
In a volunteer observer's own ground/29.9 mi away/1,336 ft/147 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Delmont 0.2 WSD-DG-10
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.1 mi away/1,488 ft/5 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
TyndallTYNS2
At a cooperative observer's station/24.3 mi away/1,421 ft/62 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 15.5 mi from Delmont, South Dakota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 2,600 ft; the ceiling is 2,600 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
46.4 F with a dew point of 39.2 F, 76 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,600 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,600 ft.
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 25 mph, gusting 33 mph: force 6, a strong breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 40 mph.
The full report of Wagner, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Tyndall (TYNS2), 24.3 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. 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.