Temperature
32 F at 6 AM; 54 F at its warmest, 11 AM Thursday, and 32 F at its coolest, 6 AM.
- Now
- 32F
- 6 AM
- Highest
- 54F
- 11 AM Thursday
- Lowest
- 32F
- 6 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/South Dakota/Pine Ridge Airport
Pine Ridge Airport, South Dakota
Small airport in Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 26. * WHERE...Portions of northwestern and southwestern South Dakota and northeast Wyoming. * WHEN...Until 9 AM MDT this morning. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
31°
56°/28°
Clear·
Feels like 27°·Light breeze 5 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Pine Ridge Airport until 10 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 18 degrees warmer: a high of 74° after 56° today.
Now. Pine Ridge Airport is 31° and clear at 8 AM. With the wind it feels like 27°. The dew point is 27°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the northwest at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 55° by 5 PM. Tonight falls to about 38° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 77°, and the coolest Sunday, near 67°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:06 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:55 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-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 2 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
44Air quality
81%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
8:00 AM
31feels27
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
5628
15mph
Sat
Oct 17
7437
17mph
Sun
Oct 18
6743
15mph
Mon
Oct 19
6838
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7543
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7648
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7748
overcast
31°
56°28°
74°37°
67°43°
68°38°
75°43°
76°48°
77°48°
As of 8:00 AM in Pine Ridge Airport, South Dakota.
Air quality
The air at Pine Ridge Airport
Index 44, good, led by fine particles. Read at 7 AM from its reporting area, Wind Cave (SD), 61 miles off.
44Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)44Good-
- Ozone31Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)6Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 39, good.
GoodModerate
- 39YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Pine Ridge Airport
0.24 in in the last 24 hours, 1.00 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 7 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.24in
- Last 3 days
- 1.00in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 24%
Visibility
How far you can see at Pine Ridge Airport, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 9 miles Fri 9 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- IEN
- ICAO
- KIEN
- IATA
- XPR
- Field elevation
- 3,333 ft
- Serves
- Pine Ridge
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- IEN
- Wind now
- From 290° at 3 mph, read 16 Oct, 06:52
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 / 30 | 5,000 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 128° / 308° | 3 mph head, on 30 | 1 mph from the left |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Pine Ridge (IEN), Pine Ridge Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 27 F, the air 82% saturated; the humidity ran from 36% at 3 PM Thursday to 93% at 8 AM Thursday.
- Dew point now
- 27F
- 6 AM
- Humidity now
- 82%
- Humidity, range
- 36 to 93%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
4 mph from the north northwest at 7 AM; at its strongest 22 mph, 7 PM Thursday, with a gust of 47 mph at 7 PM Thursday.
- Now
- 4mph
- from the north northwest
- Strongest
- 22mph
- 7 PM Thursday
- Highest gust
- 47mph
- 7 PM Thursday
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.74 inHg at 7 AM, steady over 3 hours; 0.42 inHg higher than a day before.
- Now
- 30.74inHg
- 7 AM
- 3 hours
- +0.02inHg
- steady
- 24 hours
- +0.42inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
10 miles or more every hour.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 10+mi
- 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 1,800 ft at 8 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 17 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- -
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 1,800ft
- 8 AM Thursday
- Hours with a base reported
- 17
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
Precipitation
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Wettest hour
- 0.00in
- 8 AM Thursday
- Hours with some
- 1
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Pine Ridge: 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 Pine Ridge 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
Pine RidgeIEN
At an airfield/0.3 mi away/3,310 ft/23 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Sd RWIS BateslandSD505
Beside a road/14.6 mi away/3,435 ft/102 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Porcupine RAWSPRGS2
A remote fire weather station/22.0 mi away/3,642 ft/309 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Pine Ridge 3.8 NNWSD-OL-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.7 mi away/3,149 ft/184 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Oglala 1SOGAS2
At a cooperative observer's station/16.1 mi away/3,002 ft/331 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.
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Near Pine Ridge Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Pine Ridgecommunity, 2 mi
- Wounded Kneecommunity, 11 mi
- Manderson-White Horse Creekcommunity, 15 mi
- Oglalacommunity, 16 mi
- Porcupinecommunity, 21 mi
- Bateslandtown, 22 mi
- Kylecommunity, 32 mi
- Allencommunity, 34 mi
- Oelrichstown, 38 mi
- Martincity, 40 mi
- Smithwickcommunity, 41 mi
- Oralcommunity, 47 mi
Airports near Pine Ridge Airport
- Custer County AirportCUT, 74 mi
- Rapid City Regional AirportRAP, 76 mi
- Ellsworth Air Force BaseRCA, 83 mi
- Philip AirportPHP, 84 mi
- Rosebud Sioux Tribal AirportSUO, 85 mi
- Sturgis Municipal Airport49B, 106 mi
- Black Hills Airport-Clyde Ice FieldSPF, 119 mi
- Winner Regional AirportICR, 137 mi