SD RWIS WittenSD081
Beside a road/16.4 mi away/2,119 ft/158 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Weather/South Dakota/Okreek
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Okreek until 4 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 20 degrees warmer: a high of 72° after 52° today.
Now. Okreek is 40° and overcast at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 29°. The dew point is 35°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Strong breeze from the north-northwest at 31 mph, gusting to 46 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 39° by 10 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 76°, and the coolest Monday, near 65°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 26 mph. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:57 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:45 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 2 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Okreek, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 31, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Pierre (SD), 70 miles off.
Yesterday measured 27, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.16 in in the last 24 hours, 0.20 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 7 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Okreek, South DakotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Okreek, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 8.8 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
SD RWIS WittenSD081
Beside a road/16.4 mi away/2,119 ft/158 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
RosebudSUO
At an airfield/24.6 mi away/2,700 ft/423 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Precip SW Of Rosebud431132100515200
At a river or reservoir gauge/26.6 mi away/2,830 ft/553 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Mission 7.3 ESESD-TD-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.8 mi away/2,487 ft/210 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
WoodWUDS2
At a cooperative observer's station/10.8 mi away/2,178 ft/99 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 24.6 mi from Okreek, South Dakota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 2,700 ft; the ceiling is 2,700 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
42.8 F with a dew point of 33.8 F, 70 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,000 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,700 ft.
From the north northwest (330 degrees) at 20 mph, gusting 39 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 41 mph.
The full report of Rosebud, 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.