Sd RWIS AlexandriaSD502
Beside a road/8.9 mi away/1,368 ft/119 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Weather/South Dakota/Rosedale Colony
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Rosedale Colony until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 13 degrees warmer: a high of 65° after 52° today.
Now. Rosedale Colony is 40° and mostly cloudy at 8 AM. With the wind it feels like 32°. The dew point is 35°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 18 mph, gusting to 29 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 52° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° by 11 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 76°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 65°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:47 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:33 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 1 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 8:00 AM in Rosedale Colony, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 22, good, led by ozone. Read at 8 AM from its reporting area, Santee Sioux Reservation (NE), 55 miles off.
Yesterday measured 24, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.15 in in the last 24 hours, 0.25 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 7 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Rosedale Colony, South DakotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Rosedale Colony, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.6 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Sd RWIS AlexandriaSD502
Beside a road/8.9 mi away/1,368 ft/119 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW4826GW4826
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.3 mi away/1,336 ft/87 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
MitchellMHE
At an airfield/13.1 mi away/1,298 ft/49 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Alexandria 4.6 WSWSD-HN-14
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.6 mi away/1,223 ft/26 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
AlexandriaALXS2
At a cooperative observer's station/4.8 mi away/1,352 ft/103 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 13.1 mi from Rosedale Colony, South Dakota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 7:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 2,500 ft, broken at 4,000 ft; the ceiling is 4,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
42.0 F with a dew point of 35.0 F, 76 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,600 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,500 ft.
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 21 mph, gusting 29 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 51 mph.
The full report of Mitchell, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Alexandria (ALXS2), 4.8 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.