At a river or reservoir gauge/11.9 mi away/1,690 ft/33 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/South Dakota/Little Eagle
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Little Eagle until 3 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 19 degrees warmer: a high of 69° after 50° today.
Now. Little Eagle is 40° and overcast at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 30°. The dew point is 35°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northwest at 23 mph, gusting to 34 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 49° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 37° by 5 AM, under a mostly clear sky. 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 63°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 5:56 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 9:35 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 56 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Little Eagle, South Dakota.
Precipitation
0.01 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 6 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Little Eagle, South DakotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Little Eagle, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.3 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At a river or reservoir gauge/11.9 mi away/1,690 ft/33 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
SD RWIS McLaughlinSD042
Beside a road/12.5 mi away/2,093 ft/436 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
MobridgeMBG
At an airfield/21.3 mi away/1,690 ft/33 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
McLaughlinMCGS2
At a cooperative observer's station/7.3 mi away/2,054 ft/397 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
McLaughlin 0.2 ESD-CR-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.9 mi away/1,998 ft/341 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 21.3 mi from Little Eagle, South Dakota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:52 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
A few clouds at 2,800 ft, a few clouds at 3,500 ft, broken at 4,600 ft; the ceiling is 4,600 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
42.0 F with a dew point of 36.0 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; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,800 ft.
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 22 mph, gusting 33 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 46 mph.
The full report of Mobridge, 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.