Sd RWIS Lake CitySD586
Beside a road/2.9 mi away/1,847 ft/37 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Parks/South Dakota/Roy Lake State Park
Now. Roy Lake State Park is 60° and clear at 2 AM. The dew point is 50°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the southwest at 11 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 76° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 50° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. Air quality is moderate (index 53): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Saturday, near 77°, and the coolest Monday, near 52°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:01 PM. The Moon is a waning crescent, 15% lit, and rises at 4:07 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 28 minutes long, 4 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Roy Lake State Park, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 53, moderate, led by coarse particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Watertown (SD), 59 miles off.
Yesterday measured 59, moderate.
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; 0.06 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 6 instruments nearest Roy Lake State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Sd RWIS Lake CitySD586
Beside a road/2.9 mi away/1,847 ft/37 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Marshall County RAWSMRLS2
A remote fire weather station/6.4 mi away/1,982 ft/172 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
BrittonBTN
At an airfield/14.5 mi away/1,305 ft/505 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station CW0121CW0121
In a volunteer observer's own ground/35.5 mi away/1,304 ft/506 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Obs Roy Lake Recreation AreaROYS2
At a cooperative observer's station/1.6 mi away/1,798 ft/12 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Lake City 3.7 SWSD-MR-17
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.5 mi away/1,812 ft/2 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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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.