Citizen station GW4277GW4277
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.8 mi away/1,431 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Beaches/South Dakota/Lake Alvin Beach
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Lake Alvin Beach until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 8 degrees warmer: a high of 61° after 53° today.
Now. Lake Alvin Beach is 45° and overcast at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 36°. The dew point is 40°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northwest at 21 mph, gusting to 37 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 51° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° by 2 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 61°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:42 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:28 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 3:00 AM in Lake Alvin Beach, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 16, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Sioux Falls (SD), 9 miles off.
Yesterday measured 32, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.59 in in the last 24 hours, 0.72 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 2 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
The 8 instruments nearest Lake Alvin Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.4 miles away.
measured now6 instruments
Citizen station GW4277GW4277
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.8 mi away/1,431 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Sioux FallsFSD
At an airfield/11.6 mi away/1,407 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Sd RWIS DavisSD519
Beside a road/15.4 mi away/1,299 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Sioux Falls 14 NNE04990
At a climate reference station/19.8 mi away/1,594 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Sioux Falls 14NESUFS2
At a river or reservoir gauge/20.2 mi away/1,594 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Eros Data CenterS2072
At a soil climate station/20.5 mi away/1,551 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Harrisburg 4.3 ESD-LN-42
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.4 mi away/1,405 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Sioux FallsJACS2
At a cooperative observer's station/6.3 mi away/1,522 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Sioux Falls (JACS2), 6.3 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.