MadisonMDS
At an airfield/3.9 mi away/1,709 ft/30 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Parks/South Dakota/Lake Herman State Park
Now. Lake Herman State Park is 60° and clear at 2 AM. The dew point is 46°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the south at 10 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 77° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 52° 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 Saturday, near 78°, and the coolest Monday, near 57°. Rain is possible Monday (32%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:01 PM. The Moon is a waning crescent, 15% lit, and rises at 4:08 AM after midnight. The next new Moon is Saturday, Oct 10. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 30 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Lake Herman State Park, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 43, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Brookings (SD), 30 miles off.
Yesterday measured 34, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Wed 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.02 in over the last 3 days, to Tue 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Wed 7 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 8 instruments nearest Lake Herman State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.4 miles away.
measured now6 instruments
MadisonMDS
At an airfield/3.9 mi away/1,709 ft/30 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Sd RWIS MadisonSD636
Beside a road/3.9 mi away/1,667 ft/12 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Big Sioux River 10 SE BrookingsBRKS2
At a river or reservoir gauge/24.0 mi away/1,558 ft/121 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station KF0AITKF0AIT
In a volunteer observer's own ground/28.6 mi away/1,670 ft/9 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Sioux Falls 14 NNE04990
At a climate reference station/32.3 mi away/1,594 ft/85 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Eros Data CenterS2072
At a soil climate station/32.4 mi away/1,551 ft/128 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Madison 0.8 SSD-LK-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.4 mi away/1,673 ft/6 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
MadisonMRFS2
At a cooperative observer's station/3.8 mi away/1,742 ft/63 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Madison (MRFS2), 3.8 miles from here, read 5 Oct, 09:00. 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.