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Beside a road/5.1 mi away/1,493 ft/43 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Weather/South Dakota/Ipswich
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Ipswich until 4 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 14 degrees warmer: a high of 63° after 49° today.
Now. Ipswich is 43° and mostly cloudy at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 33°. The dew point is 38°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northwest at 25 mph, gusting to 38 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 46° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° by 11 PM, under a mostly clear sky. 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 71°, and the coolest Monday, near 62°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:49 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% 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 10 hours 57 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Ipswich, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 10, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Aberdeen (SD), 26 miles off.
Yesterday measured 18, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.39 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 3 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Ipswich, South DakotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Ipswich, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
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Beside a road/5.1 mi away/1,493 ft/43 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Aberdeen 35 WNW54933
At a climate reference station/18.7 mi away/1,957 ft/421 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Aberdeen 35WNWABNS2
At a river or reservoir gauge/18.9 mi away/1,939 ft/403 ft above here
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Citizen station EW2245EW2245
In a volunteer observer's own ground/19.9 mi away/1,386 ft/150 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
AberdeenABR
At an airfield/29.6 mi away/1,296 ft/240 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
IpswitchIPSS2
At a cooperative observer's station/0.4 mi away/1,549 ft/13 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Ipswich 5.7 SSWSD-ED-20
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.9 mi away/1,548 ft/12 ft above here
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Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 29.6 mi from Ipswich, South Dakota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:24 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
A few clouds at 2,100 ft, scattered at 2,900 ft, overcast at 3,600 ft; the ceiling is 3,600 ft.
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 2,100 ft.
From the north (350 degrees) at 25 mph, gusting 46 mph: force 6, a strong breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 55 mph.
The full report of Aberdeen, 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.