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Beside a road/10.5 mi away/1,926 ft/72 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Weather/South Dakota/Toronto
Special Weather Statement, in full
Alert. A Special Weather Statement is in force for Toronto until 7 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 11 degrees warmer: a high of 59° after 48° today.
Now. Toronto is 40° and overcast at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 30°. The dew point is 38°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northwest at 23 mph, gusting to 38 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 47° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 11 PM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 29°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:41 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:23 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 3:00 AM in Toronto, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 32, good, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Brookings (SD), 17 miles off.
Yesterday measured 32, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.09 in in the last 24 hours, 0.11 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 10 miles Fri 3 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Toronto, South DakotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Toronto, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
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Beside a road/10.5 mi away/1,926 ft/72 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station KF0AITKF0AIT
In a volunteer observer's own ground/19.8 mi away/1,670 ft/328 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
BrookingsBKX
At an airfield/20.3 mi away/1,609 ft/389 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Big Sioux River 10 SE BrookingsBRKS2
At a river or reservoir gauge/27.5 mi away/1,558 ft/440 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Toronto 3.9 SWSD-BK-39
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.8 mi away/1,841 ft/157 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Watertown-23MI.EseCLKS2
At a cooperative observer's station/12.5 mi away/1,785 ft/213 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 20.3 mi from Toronto, South Dakota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:56 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 2,100 ft, broken at 2,600 ft, overcast at 3,200 ft; the ceiling is 2,100 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
43.0 F with a dew point of 37.0 F, 79 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,400 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,100 ft.
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 24 mph, gusting 36 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 41 mph.
The full report of Brookings, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Watertown-23MI.Ese (CLKS2), 12.5 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.