Sd RWIS HerreidSD536
Beside a road/2.2 mi away/1,775 ft/87 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Weather/South Dakota/Herreid
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Herreid until 4 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Herreid is 42° and overcast at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 32°. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Strong breeze from the north-northwest at 26 mph, gusting to 45 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 33° by 8 AM, with some cloud. 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 49°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 29 mph. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 33°.
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 south-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 day is 10 hours 59 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Herreid, South Dakota.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Herreid, South DakotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Herreid, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.2 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Sd RWIS HerreidSD536
Beside a road/2.2 mi away/1,775 ft/87 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At a river or reservoir gauge/25.2 mi away/1,690 ft/2 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
MobridgeMBG
At an airfield/25.9 mi away/1,690 ft/2 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Mobridge-27MI.NnePOLS2
At a cooperative observer's station/11.2 mi away/1,657 ft/31 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Java 11.5 NNESD-CP-9
In a volunteer observer's own ground/17.8 mi away/1,761 ft/73 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 25.9 mi from Herreid, South Dakota. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:52 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 2,400 ft; the ceiling is 2,400 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
45.0 F with a dew point of 37.0 F, 73 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,800 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,400 ft.
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 22 mph, gusting 39 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 54 mph.
The full report of Mobridge, 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.