Sd RWIS BeresfordSD508
Beside a road/18.2 mi away/1,470 ft/248 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Weather/South Dakota/Hudson
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Hudson until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Hudson is 44° and mostly cloudy at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 36°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the northwest at 21 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 4 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 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:42 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:29 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 3 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Hudson, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Sioux Falls (SD), 31 miles off.
Yesterday measured 32, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.65 in in the last 24 hours, 0.72 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 Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Hudson, South DakotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Hudson, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.6 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Sd RWIS BeresfordSD508
Beside a road/18.2 mi away/1,470 ft/248 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW4277GW4277
In a volunteer observer's own ground/24.4 mi away/1,431 ft/209 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Sioux FallsFSD
At an airfield/34.2 mi away/1,407 ft/185 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Hudson 6.6 WSWSD-LN-25
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.6 mi away/1,445 ft/223 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
CantonCNNS2
At a cooperative observer's station/13.8 mi away/1,309 ft/87 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 34.2 mi from Hudson, South Dakota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:56 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 1,700 ft, overcast at 2,400 ft; the ceiling is 2,400 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
46.0 F with a dew point of 41.0 F, 83 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 1,700 ft.
From the north northwest (330 degrees) at 25 mph, gusting 37 mph: force 6, a strong breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 39 mph.
The full report of Sioux Falls, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Canton (CNNS2), 13.8 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 06:20. 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.