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Beside a road/17.2 mi away/2,208 ft/46 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Weather/South Dakota/Herrick
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for Herrick until 9 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Herrick is 39° and clear at 6 AM. With the wind it feels like 30°. The dew point is 27°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the south-southwest at 17 mph, gusting to 31 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 68° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 47° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Friday, near 76°, and the coolest Monday, near 65°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:51 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 43% lit, and sets at 11:41 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 10 hours 59 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 6:00 AM in Herrick, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 13, good, led by ozone. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Santee Sioux Reservation (NE), 71 miles off.
Yesterday measured 28, good.
No smoke near the ground through Mon 1 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.07 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 5 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Mon 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Herrick, South DakotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Herrick, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.7 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
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Beside a road/17.2 mi away/2,208 ft/46 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Lake Andes RAWSRLAS2
A remote fire weather station/23.8 mi away/1,709 ft/453 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
WinnerICR
At an airfield/37.9 mi away/2,008 ft/154 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Burke 10.5 SSESD-GY-18
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.7 mi away/2,111 ft/51 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Winner 24MI.SeGRGS2
At a cooperative observer's station/14.9 mi away/2,162 ft/level with here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 37.9 mi from Herrick, South Dakota. From its report of Oct 17, 2026, 5:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
41.0 F with a dew point of 27.0 F, 57 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 3,200 ft up.
From the south (190 degrees) at 20 mph, gusting 31 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 32 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
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.