RosebudSUO
At an airfield/4.0 mi away/2,700 ft/376 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Weather/South Dakota/Soldier Creek
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Soldier Creek until 4 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 21 degrees warmer: a high of 73° after 52° today.
Now. Soldier Creek is 42° and overcast at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 30°. The dew point is 34°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Strong breeze from the north-northwest at 32 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 40° 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 31 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:59 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:47 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Soldier Creek, South Dakota.
Precipitation
0.24 in in the last 24 hours, 0.30 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 Soldier Creek, South DakotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Soldier Creek, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.0 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
RosebudSUO
At an airfield/4.0 mi away/2,700 ft/376 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Precip SW Of Rosebud431132100515200
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.5 mi away/2,830 ft/506 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Sd RWIS VetalSD573
Beside a road/16.9 mi away/3,294 ft/970 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Rosebud 1.2 WNWSD-TD-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.0 mi away/2,607 ft/283 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Mission 14SMSNS2
At a cooperative observer's station/19.7 mi away/2,769 ft/445 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 4.0 mi from Soldier Creek, South Dakota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 2,700 ft, overcast at 3,300 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 (340 degrees) at 21 mph, gusting 31 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
Measured at Mission 14S (MSNS2), 19.7 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. 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.