Citizen station GW7255GW7255
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.4 mi away/3,186 ft/34 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Parks/South Dakota/Bear Butte State Park
Bear Butte State Park, South Dakota
State Park in Meade 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.
32°
59°/30°
Clear·
Feels like 24°·Gentle breeze 9 mph WNW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Bear Butte State Park until 9 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 18 degrees warmer: a high of 77° after 59° today.
Now. Bear Butte State Park is 32° and clear at 6 AM. With the wind it feels like 24°. The dew point is 27°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 57° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 43° by 5 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 77°, and the coolest Monday, near 66°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:08 PM. 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 10 hours 59 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
27Air quality
92%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
6:00 AM
32feels24
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
5930
16mph
Sat
Oct 17
7742
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6751
17mph
Mon
Oct 19
6642
15mph
Tue
Oct 20
7546
clear day
Wed
Oct 21
7352
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 22
7551
partly cloudy day
32°
59°30°
77°42°
67°51°
66°42°
75°46°
73°52°
75°51°
As of 6:00 AM in Bear Butte State Park, South Dakota.
Air quality
The air at Bear Butte State Park
Index 27, good, led by ozone. Read at 6 AM from its reporting area, Rapid City (SD), 27 miles off.
27Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)17Good-
- Ozone27Good20 ppb21.7 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)6Good21.7 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 36, good.
GoodModerate
- 36YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 12 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Bear Butte State Park
None in the last 24 hours; 0.04 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 5 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.04in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Bear Butte State Park, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 12 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 2.99 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 3,220 ft
- County
- Meade County
- State
- South Dakota
- Latitude
- 44.4600° N
- Longitude
- 103.4217° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Bear Butte State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Sturgis49B
At an airfield/3.6 mi away/3,232 ft/12 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Bear Butte Creek At Avalanche Road At Sturgis06437300
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.4 mi away/3,502 ft/282 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Sd RWIS KirkSD585
Beside a road/18.5 mi away/5,010 ft/1,790 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Fort MeadeFTMS2
At a cooperative observer's station/4.5 mi away/3,297 ft/77 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Sturgis 0.7 ESD-MD-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.1 mi away/3,409 ft/189 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Fort Meade (FTMS2), 4.5 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 18:00. measured daily
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