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Beside a road/6.3 mi away/1,493 ft/10 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Weather/South Dakota/Pembrook Colony
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Pembrook Colony until 4 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 9 degrees cooler: a high of 49° after 58° today.
Now. Pembrook Colony is 43° and partly cloudy at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 33°. The dew point is 40°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the northwest at 24 mph, gusting to 39 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 35° by 8 AM, 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 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 49°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 24 mph. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 35°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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 0 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Pembrook Colony, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 14, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Aberdeen (SD), 25 miles off.
Yesterday measured 18, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.25 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 7 miles Fri 3 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Pembrook Colony, South DakotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Pembrook Colony, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.5 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
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Beside a road/6.3 mi away/1,493 ft/10 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station EW2245EW2245
In a volunteer observer's own ground/19.6 mi away/1,386 ft/97 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Aberdeen 35 WNW54933
At a climate reference station/24.0 mi away/1,957 ft/474 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Aberdeen 35WNWABNS2
At a river or reservoir gauge/24.2 mi away/1,939 ft/456 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
AberdeenABR
At an airfield/28.7 mi away/1,296 ft/187 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Ipswich 5.7 SSWSD-ED-20
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.5 mi away/1,548 ft/65 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
IpswitchIPSS2
At a cooperative observer's station/5.4 mi away/1,549 ft/66 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 28.7 mi from Pembrook Colony, South Dakota. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 2,400 ft, overcast at 3,400 ft; the ceiling is 2,400 ft.
46.0 F with a dew point of 40.0 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 2,400 ft.
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 21 mph, gusting 33 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 47 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.