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Beside a road/1.1 mi away/3,071 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Golf courses/South Dakota/Prairie Ridge Golf Course
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Prairie Ridge Golf Course until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Prairie Ridge Golf Course is 41° and light rain at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 30°. The dew point is 25°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Strong breeze from the north-northwest at 32 mph, gusting to 46 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 30° by 7 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 77°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 28 mph. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 29°.
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.
As of 11:00 PM in Prairie Ridge Golf Course, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 31, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Rapid City (SD), 10 miles off.
Yesterday measured 16, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Prairie Ridge Golf Course, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
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Beside a road/1.1 mi away/3,071 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/1.8 mi away/3,207 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Rapid Creek Blw Hawthorn Ditch At Rapid City06416000
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.7 mi away/3,126 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW3529GW3529
In a volunteer observer's own ground/14.1 mi away/3,393 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Box Elder 0.5 NESD-PN-101
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.6 mi away/3,082 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Wfo Rapid CityUNRS2
At a cooperative observer's station/7.8 mi away/3,356 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Wfo Rapid City (UNRS2), 7.8 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 06:00. measured daily
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.