SD RWIS WardSD077
Beside a road/10.9 mi away/1,654 ft/86 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Weather/South Dakota/Flandreau
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Flandreau until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 9 degrees warmer: a high of 59° after 50° today.
Now. Flandreau is 43° and overcast at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 35°. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 18 mph, gusting to 29 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 49° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 1 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:41 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 11 hours 0 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Flandreau, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 42, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Brookings (SD), 23 miles off.
Yesterday measured 21, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.34 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 7 miles Fri 2 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Flandreau, South DakotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 8 instruments nearest Flandreau, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now6 instruments
SD RWIS WardSD077
Beside a road/10.9 mi away/1,654 ft/86 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Big Sioux River 10 SE BrookingsBRKS2
At a river or reservoir gauge/11.9 mi away/1,558 ft/10 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW0796GW0796
In a volunteer observer's own ground/17.1 mi away/1,695 ft/127 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
BrookingsBKX
At an airfield/20.9 mi away/1,609 ft/41 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Eros Data CenterS2072
At a soil climate station/21.2 mi away/1,551 ft/17 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Sioux Falls 14 NNE04990
At a climate reference station/21.9 mi away/1,594 ft/26 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Flandreau 0.2 ESD-MY-14
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.2 mi away/1,573 ft/5 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
FlandreauFLAS2
At a cooperative observer's station/0.3 mi away/1,549 ft/19 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 20.9 mi from Flandreau, South Dakota. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:56 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 2,300 ft; the ceiling is 2,300 ft; visibility 8 mi.
44.0 F with a dew point of 39.0 F, 82 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,100 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,300 ft.
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 21 mph, gusting 31 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 43 mph.
The full report of Brookings, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Flandreau (FLAS2), 0.3 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 06:30. 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.