Sd RWIS CorsicaSD601
Beside a road/11.7 mi away/1,565 ft/52 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Weather/South Dakota/Lakeview Colony
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Lakeview Colony until 4 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 13 degrees warmer: a high of 63° after 50° today.
Now. Lakeview Colony is 44° and overcast at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 34°. The dew point is 38°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Strong breeze from the north-northwest at 25 mph, gusting to 41 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 37° by 11 PM, under a mostly clear sky. 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 63°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 mph. 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 10:37 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 Lakeview Colony, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 23, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Santee Sioux Reservation (NE), 41 miles off.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.19 in in the last 24 hours, 0.24 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 10 miles Fri 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Lakeview Colony, South DakotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Lakeview Colony, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.9 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Sd RWIS CorsicaSD601
Beside a road/11.7 mi away/1,565 ft/52 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Fort Randall DamFRDS2
At a dam/12.8 mi away/1,342 ft/171 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
WagnerAGZ
At an airfield/13.5 mi away/1,467 ft/46 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW4826GW4826
In a volunteer observer's own ground/38.6 mi away/1,336 ft/177 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Lake Andes 2.4 NSD-CM-21
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.9 mi away/1,647 ft/134 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Pickstown 4SSWPCKS2
At a cooperative observer's station/14.9 mi away/1,712 ft/199 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 13.5 mi from Lakeview Colony, South Dakota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 2,000 ft, overcast at 2,700 ft; the ceiling is 2,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
44.6 F with a dew point of 44.6 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,000 ft.
From the north northwest (330 degrees) at 20 mph, gusting 35 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 40 mph.
The full report of Wagner, 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.