Long Hollow, South Dakota Weather
Long Hollow, South Dakota — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Long Hollow, Roberts County.
Full aviation weather for Long Hollow is published on the Sisseton Municipal Airport (K8D3) page, 14 km away. It carries the current METAR decoded into plain language — surface wind, visibility, cloud layers and ceiling, temperature and dewpoint, and altimeter setting — alongside the raw observation as transmitted. 4 airfields within reach of Long Hollow have their own pages, listed below.
The Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF) is shown across its full validity period, with each change group broken out so you can see when conditions are expected to shift. Flight category is derived automatically — VFR, MVFR, IFR or LIFR — from reported ceiling and visibility, with runway details and field elevation alongside. Observations update roughly hourly and forecasts several times a day.
Other airports near Long Hollow: Britton Municipal Airport (KBTN) 46 km · Wheaton Municipal Airport (KETH) 49 km · The Sigurd Anderson Airport (K1D7) 52 km
Conditions reported at K8D3 describe the airfield itself. Weather 14 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Long Hollow specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Long Hollow.
About Long Hollow, South Dakota
Long Hollow breathes a quiet existence across the South Dakota prairie, a place where the sky feels vast and the land rolls with a gentle persistence. It lies 65.8 miles east-north-east of Aberdeen, SD (from Aberdeen, SD: bearing 75°T), and is situated 6.1 miles west-north-west of Sisseton. The terrain here is a study in subtle contours, a series of shallow valleys and broad swells that guide the eye towards the horizon. In summer, the grasses rise in feathery waves, a sea of green and gold under the relentless sun, broken only by the occasional cluster of cottonwood trees or the stark silhouette of a weathered barn. The air, especially at dawn and dusk, carries a clean, crisp scent, a mixture of dry earth and distant wildflowers, and the silence is profound, broken only by the whisper of wind or the distant call of a meadowlark. This is a landscape that demands patience, revealing its beauty not in dramatic pronouncements, but in the slow unfolding of seasons and the enduring strength of its natural forms. The history of Long Hollow is written in the soil and the enduring spirit of its people, a lineage rooted in the hardy settlers who braved the elements to establish farms and ranches. The local economy still largely revolves around agriculture, with vast fields of corn and soybeans stretching across the land, their orderly rows a testament to generations of hard work and connection to the earth. While the days of homesteading might be a distant memory, the sense of self-reliance and community that defined those early years persists in Long Hollow. There are no grand monuments or bustling tourist attractions here; instead, the distinctive character of Long Hollow lies in its unpretentious authenticity, the quiet dignity of a place that has weathered change and continues to thrive on the fundamental rhythms of the land.
Live animated radar for Long Hollow and surroundings — RainViewer.
NOAA GOES-16 GEOCOLOR — live animated loop updated every 10 minutes. Shows cloud cover, storm systems and weather patterns across the continental US.
Source: NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East · Public domain · Auto-updates on page reload
| Location | Long Hollow, Roberts County, South Dakota |
| Coordinates | 45.698338°N, 97.167411°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 57262 |
| Area Code | 605 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Long Hollow, South Dakota Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Long Hollow, South Dakota, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. Aviation weather — live METAR observations and TAF forecasts — is published separately on the pages for the nearest reporting airports, linked from the aviation section above. Additional sections may include tide predictions, wave height, wave direction and sea-surface temperature, a barometric pressure trend, and a solunar-based fishing forecast with a fishing-conditions rating for coastal localities, and soil temperature, crop weather and live USGS river gauge data for agricultural areas near a monitored waterway. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Long Hollow includes coordinates 45.698338°N, 97.167411°W, situated in Roberts County. ZIP code 57262. Telephone area code: 605. Timezone: Central Time (America/Chicago).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. River and stream data is sourced from the USGS National Water Information System. Tide predictions are sourced from NOAA CO-OPS; marine and solunar data are modeled from Open-Meteo and public sunrise/moon calculations and should be treated as a general guide alongside on-the-water conditions. Radar is provided by RainViewer. Satellite imagery is sourced from NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East and is public domain.
