Temperature
32 F at 9 PM; 48 F at its warmest, 12 PM, and 32 F at its coolest, 8 PM.
- Now
- 32F
- 9 PM
- Highest
- 48F
- 12 PM
- Lowest
- 32F
- 8 PM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/South Dakota/Custer County Airport
Custer County Airport, South Dakota
Small airport in Custer County, South Dakota31°
50°/37°
Partly cloudy·
Feels like 19°·Moderate breeze 17 mph NNW
Now. Custer County Airport is 31° and partly cloudy at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 19°. The dew point is 19°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 17 mph, gusting to 39 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 23° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Saturday, near 68°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 49°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 22°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The Orionids meteor shower is active, peaking around Oct 21: at its peak, up to about 20 meteors an hour can be seen from a dark site. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 3 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
37Air quality
63%Humidity
62%Cloud
Now
10:00 PM
31feels19
17mph
Today
Oct 15
5037
20mph
Fri
Oct 16
4922
13mph
Sat
Oct 17
6836
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6243
mostly clear day
Mon
Oct 19
6137
clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6740
mostly clear day
Wed
Oct 21
6845
mostly clear day
31°
50°37°
49°22°
68°36°
62°43°
61°37°
67°40°
68°45°
As of 10:00 PM in Custer County Airport, South Dakota.
Air quality
The air at Custer County Airport
Index 37, good, led by ozone. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Wind Cave (SD), 14 miles off.
37Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)34Good13.7 mi
- Ozone37Good38 ppb13.7 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)6Good13.7 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 32, good.
GoodModerate
- 32YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Custer County Airport
None in the last 24 hours; 0.02 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.02in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Custer County Airport, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- CUT
- ICAO
- KCUT
- IATA
- -
- Field elevation
- 5,602 ft
- Serves
- Custer
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- CUT
- Wind now
- From 340° at 23 mph, read 15 Oct, 21:53
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08 / 26 | 5,500 ft | 60 ft | Asphalt | 84° / 264° | 6 mph head, on 26 | 22 mph from the right |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Custer (CUT), Custer County Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 19 F, the air 58% saturated; the humidity ran from 26% at 3 PM to 96% at 11 PM Wednesday.
- Dew point now
- 19F
- 9 PM
- Humidity now
- 58%
- Humidity, range
- 26 to 96%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
19 mph from the north northwest at 9 PM; at its strongest 19 mph, 9 PM, with a gust of 49 mph at 9 PM.
- Now
- 19mph
- from the north northwest
- Strongest
- 19mph
- 9 PM
- Highest gust
- 49mph
- 9 PM
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.56 inHg at 9 PM, rising 0.06 inHg over 3 hours; 0.43 inHg higher than a day before.
- Now
- 30.56inHg
- 9 PM
- 3 hours
- +0.06inHg
- rising
- 24 hours
- +0.43inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 6 miles at 11 PM Wednesday; 10 miles or more now.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 6mi
- 11 PM Wednesday
- Hours under a mile
- 0
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
Cloud base
The lowest cloud base came down to 600 ft at 12 AM; a base was reported in 12 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- -
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 600ft
- 12 AM
- Hours with a base reported
- 12
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
Precipitation
0.02 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.01 in, in the hour to 11 PM Wednesday.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.02in
- Wettest hour
- 0.01in
- 11 PM Wednesday
- Hours with some
- 8
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Custer: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Custer County Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
CusterCUT
At an airfield/0.3 mi away/5,534 ft/68 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Custer RAWSCRRS2
A remote fire weather station/1.4 mi away/5,443 ft/159 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
SD RWIS PringleSD055
Beside a road/8.7 mi away/4,869 ft/733 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Custer 1.3 WSWSD-CS-37
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.0 mi away/5,402 ft/200 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
CusterCUSS2
At a cooperative observer's station/2.6 mi away/5,479 ft/123 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in South Dakota
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
AberdeencityBadlandsfeatureBelle FourchecityBlack Elk PeakfeatureBlack HillsfeatureBrookingscityCustercityDeadwoodcityGreat Bearski areaHot SpringscityHuroncityLake OahefeatureLeadcityMitchellcityPierrecityRapid CitycitySioux FallscitySpearfishcitySturgiscityTerry Peakski areaVermillioncityWatertowncityWind Cave National ParkfeatureYanktoncity
Near Custer County Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Custercity, 2 mi
- Pringletown, 9 mi
- Black Elk Peakfeature, 10 mi
- Black Hillsfeature, 10 mi
- Wind Cave National Parkfeature, 13 mi
- Hill Citycity, 14 mi
- Keystonetown, 15 mi
- Fairburntown, 21 mi
- Hot Springscity, 22 mi
- Hermosatown, 22 mi
- Buffalo Gaptown, 22 mi
- Colonial Pine Hillscommunity, 24 mi
Airports near Custer County Airport
- Rapid City Regional AirportRAP, 35 mi
- Ellsworth Air Force BaseRCA, 38 mi
- Sturgis Municipal Airport49B, 49 mi
- Black Hills Airport-Clyde Ice FieldSPF, 52 mi
- Pine Ridge AirportIEN, 74 mi
- Philip AirportPHP, 103 mi
- Faith Municipal AirportD07, 120 mi
- Rosebud Sioux Tribal AirportSUO, 142 mi