Sd RWIS Ree HeightsSD607
Beside a road/1.0 mi away/1,699 ft/42 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Weather/South Dakota/Ree Heights
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Ree Heights until 4 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 15 degrees warmer: a high of 64° after 49° today.
Now. Ree Heights is 42° and mostly cloudy at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 33°. The dew point is 38°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northwest at 24 mph, gusting to 37 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 48° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° by 10 PM, 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 Monday, near 62°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:51 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:34 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 59 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Ree Heights, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 34, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Pierre (SD), 55 miles off.
Yesterday measured 37, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.02 in in the last 24 hours, 0.10 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 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
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The 4 instruments nearest Ree Heights, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.8 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
Sd RWIS Ree HeightsSD607
Beside a road/1.0 mi away/1,699 ft/42 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Huron RAWSRHUS2
A remote fire weather station/28.5 mi away/1,900 ft/159 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Monitor Precip Run To Litl Wolf CRKRHTS2
At a cooperative observer's station/0.8 mi away/1,693 ft/48 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Ree Heights 1.3 SSWSD-HD-19
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.2 mi away/1,816 ft/75 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 1.0 mi from Ree Heights, South Dakota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:46 AM local time: 3 of its 5 sheets.
42.6 F with a dew point of 38.4 F, 85 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,000 ft up.
From the north northwest (336 degrees) at 23 mph, gusting 41 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 45 mph.
At 1,699 ft above sea level, 6 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 28.13 inHg and the temperature at 52.9 F; it reports 42.6 F, 10.3 F colder than standard.
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Snow on the ground
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The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.