Eros Data CenterS2072
At a soil climate station/5.6 mi away/1,551 ft/105 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Parks/South Dakota/Palisades State Park
Now. Palisades State Park is 60° and clear at 2 AM. The dew point is 45°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the south-southwest at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 78° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 53° by 6 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 79°, and the coolest Monday, near 59°. Rain is possible Monday (35%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:58 PM. The Moon is a waning crescent, 15% lit, and rises at 4:06 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 Palisades State Park, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 34, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Sioux Falls (SD), 14 miles off.
Yesterday measured 33, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Wed 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in 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 Palisades State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.9 miles away.
measured now6 instruments
Eros Data CenterS2072
At a soil climate station/5.6 mi away/1,551 ft/105 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.8 mi away/1,602 ft/156 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Sioux Falls 14 NNE04990
At a climate reference station/5.8 mi away/1,594 ft/148 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Citizen station FW9701FW9701
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.0 mi away/1,405 ft/41 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Sioux FallsFSD
At an airfield/14.9 mi away/1,407 ft/39 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Sd RWIS Dell RapidsSD520
Beside a road/15.7 mi away/1,591 ft/145 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Garretson 2.1 SSWSD-MH-19
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.9 mi away/1,496 ft/50 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Sioux FallsEROS2
At a cooperative observer's station/5.7 mi away/1,591 ft/145 ft above 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.