Sd RWIS CavourSD515
Beside a road/4.5 mi away/1,335 ft/6 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Weather/South Dakota/Yale
Coming up. Tomorrow is 12 degrees warmer: a high of 62° after 50° today.
Now. Yale is 44° and overcast at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 36°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northwest at 21 mph, gusting to 39 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 49° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° by 1 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 first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:46 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:30 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 1:00 AM in Yale, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 29, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Watertown (SD), 53 miles off.
Yesterday measured 21, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.19 in in the last 24 hours, 0.25 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 9 miles Fri 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Yale, South DakotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 4 instruments nearest Yale, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.5 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
Sd RWIS CavourSD515
Beside a road/4.5 mi away/1,335 ft/6 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
HuronHON
At an airfield/12.2 mi away/1,261 ft/80 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Osceola 0.1 NSD-KY-16
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.9 mi away/1,459 ft/118 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Woonsocket 13NEWSKS2
At a cooperative observer's station/19.5 mi away/1,307 ft/34 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 12.2 mi from Yale, South Dakota. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 2,500 ft; the ceiling is 2,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
47.0 F with a dew point of 39.0 F, 74 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,800 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,500 ft.
From the north northwest (330 degrees) at 24 mph, gusting 36 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 46 mph.
The full report of Huron, 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.