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    Alexandria, SD · 35°F

    How much snow does Alexandria, South Dakota get?

    No snow. The sky’s sulking.

    Clouds now. No snow in the next 5 days.

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    Snow in the next 5 days

    • Satclouds41° / 33°
    • Sunclear skies51° / 30°
    • Monclear skies56° / 39°
    • Tueclouds55° / 44°
    • Wedclouds61° / 46°

    No snow for Alexandria this week. The sky’s saving it for a bigger entrance.

    Live 5-day forecast and current temperature from OpenWeatherMap, refreshed about every half hour. Winter warnings from the National Weather Service.

    A typical winter

    Snow a year
    36 in
    Days with 1 in or more
    11
    Winter high
    29°F
    Winter low
    9°F
    First freeze
    Sep 29
    Last freeze
    May 8
    Nights at 32°F or below
    159
    Dec, Jan, Feb snow
    8.2, 6.1, 8.0 in

    December is usually the snowiest of the three winter months here, with about 8 inches.

    The first fall freeze usually comes around Sep 29 and the last spring one around May 8, which leaves about 144 days without a freeze.

    A typical winter day runs from about 9°F to 29°F, and the low gets down to 32°F or colder on about 159 nights a year.

    Towns with about the same snow

    More towns in South Dakota

    • Spearfish: about 71 inches of snow a year
    • Murdo: about 49 inches of snow a year
    • Eureka: about 44 inches of snow a year
    • Faulkton: about 44 inches of snow a year
    • Dupree: about 41 inches of snow a year

    More about the weather around here

    Source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991 to 2020, co-op station USC00390128 at Alexandria. Winter means December to February, and the freeze dates are the median dates of the first and last 32°F night.