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Beside a road/11.8 mi away/1,385 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Beaches/South Dakota/South Beach
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for South Beach until 9 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. South Beach is 37° and clear at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 30°. The dew point is 29°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the south-southwest at 11 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 60° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 47° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Friday, near 72°, and the coolest Monday, near 62°. Rain is possible Friday (32%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:38 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 43% lit, and sets at 11:22 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 53 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in South Beach, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 29, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Watertown (SD), 44 miles off.
Yesterday measured 28, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.01 in in the last 24 hours, 0.24 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 7 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 5 instruments nearest South Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.9 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Sd RWIS PeeverSD552
Beside a road/11.8 mi away/1,385 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Sisseton8D3
At an airfield/17.4 mi away/1,154 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Marvin 9SWMVNS2
At a river or reservoir gauge/26.7 mi away/1,924 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Wilmot 8.2 NNESD-RB-9
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.9 mi away/1,010 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
WilmotWMTS2
At a cooperative observer's station/7.3 mi away/1,198 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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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.