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Beside a road/8.1 mi away/4,865 ft/560 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Parks/South Dakota/Jewel Cave National Monument
Jewel Cave National Monument, South Dakota
National Monument in Custer County, South Dakota31°
46°/25°
Clear·
Feels like 19°·Fresh breeze 19 mph NNW
Now. Jewel Cave National Monument is 31° and clear at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 19°. The dew point is 19°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northwest at 19 mph, gusting to 46 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 25° 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 Tuesday, near 69°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 48°. The days ahead look dry.
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 4 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
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37Air quality
58%Humidity
5%Cloud
Now
10:00 PM
31feels19
19mph
Today
Oct 15
4625
21mph
Fri
Oct 16
4838
clear day
Sat
Oct 17
6745
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6539
13mph
Mon
Oct 19
6246
clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6949
clear day
Wed
Oct 21
6949
clear day
31°
46°25°
48°38°
67°45°
65°39°
62°46°
69°49°
69°49°
As of 10:00 PM in Jewel Cave National Monument, South Dakota.
Air quality
The air at Jewel Cave National Monument
Index 37, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Wind Cave (SD), 21 miles off.
37Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)34Good21 mi
- Ozone37Good38 ppb21 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)6Good21 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 Jewel Cave National Monument
0.14 in in the last 24 hours, 0.32 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.14in
- Last 3 days
- 0.32in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 44%
Visibility
How far you can see at Jewel Cave National Monument, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- National Monument
- Area
- 1.98 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 5,425 ft
- County
- Custer County
- State
- South Dakota
- Latitude
- 43.7310° N
- Longitude
- 103.8316° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Jewel Cave National Monument, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.9 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Custer RAWSCRRS2
A remote fire weather station/10.0 mi away/5,443 ft/18 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
CusterCUT
At an airfield/11.0 mi away/5,534 ft/109 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Custer 4.9 SWSD-CS-43
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.9 mi away/5,321 ft/104 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Edgemont 23 NNWEGMS2
At a cooperative observer's station/8.9 mi away/4,400 ft/1,025 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
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 Jewel Cave National Monument
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Custercity, 12 mi
- Pringletown, 15 mi
- Black Elk Peakfeature, 18 mi
- Black Hillsfeature, 18 mi
- Hill Citycity, 19 mi
- Wind Cave National Parkfeature, 21 mi
- Keystonetown, 24 mi
- Hot Springscity, 27 mi
- Dudleycommunity, 29 mi
- Edgemontcity, 30 mi
- Buffalo Gaptown, 31 mi
- Fairburntown, 31 mi