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    Howard, SD · 35°F

    How much snow does Howard, 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° / 31°
    • Sunclear skies50° / 29°
    • Monclear skies54° / 36°
    • Tueclouds53° / 43°
    • Wedclouds58° / 44°

    Not a flake in the Howard forecast. The clouds are clearly holding a grudge.

    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
    32°F
    Winter low
    8°F
    First freeze
    Oct 2
    Last freeze
    May 5
    Nights at 32°F or below
    169
    Dec, Jan, Feb snow
    7.6, 5.8, 6.4 in

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

    The first fall freeze usually comes around Oct 2 and the last spring one around May 5, which leaves about 150 days without a freeze.

    A typical winter day runs from about 8°F to 32°F, and the low gets down to 32°F or colder on about 169 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 USC00394037 at Howard. Winter means December to February, and the freeze dates are the median dates of the first and last 32°F night.