Mount Rushmore RAWSRHRS2
A remote fire weather station/3.5 mi away/5,272 ft/199 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Parks/South Dakota/Custer State Park
Custer State Park, South Dakota
State Park in Custer County, South Dakota35°
52°/41°
Partly cloudy·
Feels like 26°·Gentle breeze 13 mph NNW
Now. Custer State Park is 35° and partly cloudy at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 26°. The dew point is 20°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 13 mph, gusting to 46 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 28° 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 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 51°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 27°.
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
56%Humidity
40%Cloud
Now
10:00 PM
35feels26
13mph
Today
Oct 15
5241
16mph
Fri
Oct 16
5127
12mph
Sat
Oct 17
7440
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6248
mostly clear day
Mon
Oct 19
6139
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6944
mostly clear day
Wed
Oct 21
7051
mostly clear day
35°
52°41°
51°27°
74°40°
62°48°
61°39°
69°44°
70°51°
As of 10:00 PM in Custer State Park, South Dakota.
Air quality
The air at Custer State Park
Index 37, good, led by ozone. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Wind Cave (SD), 18 miles off.
37Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)34Good18.2 mi
- Ozone37Good38 ppb18.2 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)6Good18.2 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 State Park
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Custer State Park, 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
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 110 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 5,073 ft
- County
- Custer County
- State
- South Dakota
- Latitude
- 43.8248° N
- Longitude
- 103.4623° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Custer State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
SD RWIS Three ForksSD067
Beside a road/9.1 mi away/4,731 ft/342 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
CusterCUT
At an airfield/9.8 mi away/5,534 ft/461 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW3529GW3529
In a volunteer observer's own ground/28.1 mi away/3,393 ft/1,680 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Custer 4.7 ENESD-CS-34
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.3 mi away/5,401 ft/328 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Mount Rushmore National MemorialRNMS2
At a cooperative observer's station/4.1 mi away/4,826 ft/247 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 Mount Rushmore National Memorial (RNMS2), 4.1 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 23:59. measured daily
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 State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Black Hillsfeature, 4 mi
- Black Elk Peakfeature, 4 mi
- Keystonetown, 5 mi
- Custercity, 8 mi
- Hill Citycity, 9 mi
- Hermosatown, 14 mi
- Colonial Pine Hillscommunity, 14 mi
- Fairburntown, 16 mi
- Pringletown, 16 mi
- Wind Cave National Parkfeature, 17 mi
- Johnson Sidingcommunity, 18 mi
- Rapid Citycity, 21 mi