WinnerICR
At an airfield/16.3 mi away/2,008 ft/247 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Weather/South Dakota/Hamill
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Hamill until 4 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 18 degrees warmer: a high of 69° after 51° today.
Now. Hamill is 41° and overcast at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 31°. The dew point is 37°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northwest at 23 mph, gusting to 38 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 49° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 38° by 1 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 76°, and the coolest Monday, near 65°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:54 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:41 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 1 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Hamill, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 32, good, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Pierre (SD), 61 miles off.
Yesterday measured 27, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.22 in in the last 24 hours, 0.23 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 Hamill, South DakotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Hamill, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.6 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
WinnerICR
At an airfield/16.3 mi away/2,008 ft/247 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
SD RWIS RelianceSD059
Beside a road/18.5 mi away/1,821 ft/60 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At a river or reservoir gauge/34.2 mi away/1,453 ft/308 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Hamill 1.7 SWSD-TP-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.6 mi away/1,824 ft/63 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
WinnerWINS2
At a cooperative observer's station/17.4 mi away/1,942 ft/181 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 16.3 mi from Hamill, South Dakota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:27 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 2,700 ft, broken at 3,500 ft, overcast at 5,000 ft; the ceiling is 2,700 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
43.0 F with a dew point of 36.0 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 2,700 ft.
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 28 mph, gusting 39 mph: force 6, a strong breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 47 mph.
The full report of Winner, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Winner (WINS2), 17.4 miles from here, read 12 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.