Sd RWIS PlankintonSD553
Beside a road/10.7 mi away/1,581 ft/61 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Weather/South Dakota/Stickney
Coming up. Tomorrow is 13 degrees warmer: a high of 62° after 49° today.
Now. Stickney is 43° and overcast at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 33°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northwest at 24 mph, gusting to 40 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 49° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 35° by 12 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 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 62°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:49 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:35 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 3:00 AM in Stickney, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 23, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Santee Sioux Reservation (NE), 60 miles off.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.15 in in the last 24 hours, 0.19 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 Stickney, South DakotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Stickney, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.9 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Sd RWIS PlankintonSD553
Beside a road/10.7 mi away/1,581 ft/61 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW4826GW4826
In a volunteer observer's own ground/21.0 mi away/1,336 ft/306 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
MitchellMHE
At an airfield/23.6 mi away/1,298 ft/344 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Lake Andes RAWSRLAS2
A remote fire weather station/28.0 mi away/1,709 ft/67 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Stickney 3.8 SWSD-AR-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.9 mi away/1,644 ft/2 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Mitchell-36MI.WWITS2
At a cooperative observer's station/17.1 mi away/1,627 ft/15 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 23.6 mi from Stickney, South Dakota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 2,900 ft, broken at 6,000 ft, overcast at 9,500 ft; the ceiling is 6,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
46.0 F with a dew point of 37.0 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 2,900 ft.
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 24 mph, gusting 41 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
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.