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Beside a road/8.1 mi away/2,920 ft/244 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Parks/South Dakota/Badlands National Park
Badlands National Park, South Dakota
National Park in Pennington County, South Dakota44°
55°/30°
Clear·
Feels like 37°·Moderate breeze 15 mph S
Coming up. Tomorrow is 19 degrees warmer: a high of 74° after 55° today.
Now. Badlands National Park is 44° and clear at 7 PM. With the wind it feels like 37°. The dew point is 23°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the south at 15 mph, gusting to 26 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 41° 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 tomorrow, near 74°, and the coolest Monday, near 62°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 9:52 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 0 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
34Air quality
43%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
7:00 PM
44feels37
15mph
Today
Oct 16
5530
21mph
Sat
Oct 17
7440
21mph
Sun
Oct 18
6544
18mph
Mon
Oct 19
6238
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
7243
mostly clear day
Wed
Oct 21
7149
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 22
7449
13mph
44°
55°30°
74°40°
65°44°
62°38°
72°43°
71°49°
74°49°
As of 7:00 PM in Badlands National Park, South Dakota.
Air quality
The air at Badlands National Park
Index 34, good, led by ozone. Read at 6 PM from its reporting area, Rapid City (SD), 44 miles off.
34Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)0Good-
- Ozone34Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)9Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 36, good.
GoodModerate
- 36YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 42 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 12 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Badlands National Park
None in the last 24 hours; 0.22 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 6 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.22in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Badlands National Park, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 12 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- National Park
- Area
- 379 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 3,164 ft
- County
- Pennington County
- State
- South Dakota
- Latitude
- 43.7045° N
- Longitude
- 102.5718° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Badlands National Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.7 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Cheyenne River At Red Shirt06403700
At a river or reservoir gauge/16.1 mi away/2,653 ft/511 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Rapid CityRAP
At an airfield/33.8 mi away/3,165 ft/1 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Wasta 21.6 SSWSD-PN-19
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.7 mi away/2,933 ft/231 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
WastaWTAS2
At a cooperative observer's station/25.6 mi away/2,320 ft/844 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Wasta (WTAS2), 25.6 miles from here, read 13 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in South Dakota
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Badlands National Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Walltown, 26 mi
- Wastatown, 26 mi
- Kylecommunity, 28 mi
- Caputacommunity, 29 mi
- Porcupinecommunity, 29 mi
- Interiortown, 29 mi
- Quinntown, 30 mi
- New Underwoodcity, 30 mi
- Fairburntown, 32 mi
- Hermosatown, 32 mi
- Manderson-White Horse Creekcommunity, 33 mi
- Green Valleycommunity, 36 mi