Sd RWIS LaneSD603
Beside a road/1.3 mi away/1,401 ft/26 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Weather/South Dakota/Lane
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for Lane until 9 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Lane is 37° and clear at 6 AM. With the wind it feels like 28°. The dew point is 29°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the south at 15 mph, gusting to 28 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 67° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 45° 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 77°, and the coolest Monday, near 66°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:47 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 43% lit, and sets at 11:34 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 6:00 AM in Lane, South Dakota.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.31 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
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The 6 instruments nearest Lane, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Sd RWIS LaneSD603
Beside a road/1.3 mi away/1,401 ft/26 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Huron RAWSRHUS2
A remote fire weather station/20.7 mi away/1,900 ft/525 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
HuronHON
At an airfield/23.9 mi away/1,261 ft/114 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW4826GW4826
In a volunteer observer's own ground/32.6 mi away/1,336 ft/39 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Wessington Springs 0.5 ESD-JR-11
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.7 mi away/1,622 ft/247 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Huron-26MI.SwWSPS2
At a cooperative observer's station/7.0 mi away/1,644 ft/269 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 23.9 mi from Lane, South Dakota. From its report of Oct 17, 2026, 5:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
35.0 F with a dew point of 29.0 F, 79 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,400 ft up.
From the south (170 degrees) at 13 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 24 mph.
The full report of Huron, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Huron-26MI.Sw (WSPS2), 7.0 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 07:00. 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.