SD RWIS TyndallSD071
Beside a road/10.1 mi away/1,332 ft/15 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Weather/South Dakota/Springfield
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Springfield until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 10 degrees warmer: a high of 60° after 50° today.
Now. Springfield is 43° and mostly cloudy at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 35°. The dew point is 37°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the northwest at 20 mph, gusting to 34 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 35° by 3 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 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:48 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:36 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 3 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Springfield, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 26, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Santee Sioux Reservation (NE), 3 miles off.
Yesterday measured 15, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.37 in in the last 24 hours, 0.41 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 10 miles Fri 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Springfield, South DakotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Springfield, 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 TyndallSD071
Beside a road/10.1 mi away/1,332 ft/15 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
WagnerAGZ
At an airfield/24.5 mi away/1,467 ft/150 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Fort Randall DamFRDS2
At a dam/38.2 mi away/1,342 ft/25 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Springfield 0.7 WSD-BH-19
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.6 mi away/1,316 ft/1 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
TyndallTYNS2
At a cooperative observer's station/9.1 mi away/1,421 ft/104 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 24.5 mi from Springfield, South Dakota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 3,000 ft; the ceiling is 3,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
46.4 F with a dew point of 37.4 F, 71 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,100 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 3,000 ft.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 23 mph, gusting 36 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 40 mph.
The full report of Wagner, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Tyndall (TYNS2), 9.1 miles from here, read 15 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.