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Beside a road/4.0 mi away/2,618 ft/84 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Parks/South Dakota/Minuteman Missile National Historic Site
Minuteman Missile National Historic Site, South Dakota
48°
75°/41°
Clear·
Feels like 44°·Gentle breeze 10 mph SE
Now. Minuteman Missile National Historic Site is 48° and clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 44°. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the southeast at 10 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 75° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 44° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Friday, near 81°, and the coolest Saturday, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is Saturday, with wind to 24 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 5:56 PM. The Moon is a waxing gibbous, 71% lit, and sets at 2:08 AM after midnight. 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 bright Moon hides all but the brightest of them. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 10 hours 49 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
33Air quality
74%Humidity
1%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
48feels44
now, clear
Today
Oct 20
7541
clear
Wed
Oct 21
6844
mostly clear
Thu
Oct 22
8047
mostly clear
Fri
Oct 23
10%
8157
partly cloudy
Sat
Oct 24
24%
5745
mostly clear
Sun
Oct 25
5937
mostly clear
Mon
Oct 26
5838
mostly clear
As of 12:00 AM in Minuteman Missile National Historic Site, South Dakota.
Air quality
The air at Minuteman Missile National Historic Site
Index 33, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Rapid City (SD), 70 miles off.
33Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)17Good6.8 mi
- Ozone33Good27 ppb6.8 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)10Good6.8 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 21, good.
GoodModerate
- 21YesterdayOct 19
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Wed 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Minuteman Missile National Historic Site
None in the last 3 days, to Mon 11 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 Minuteman Missile National Historic Site, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Wed 6 PM, lowest 10 miles Tue 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- National Historic Site
- Area
- 1,970,000 sq ft
- Height at its point
- 2,534 ft
- County
- Jackson County
- State
- South Dakota
- Latitude
- 43.8447° N
- Longitude
- 101.9010° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Minuteman Missile National Historic Site, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.0 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Pinnacles RAWSPINS2
A remote fire weather station/17.0 mi away/3,074 ft/540 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
PhilipPHP
At an airfield/20.6 mi away/2,204 ft/330 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Philip 18.7 SWSD-JK-20
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.1 mi away/2,533 ft/1 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Badlands Park HdqINTS2
At a cooperative observer's station/7.0 mi away/2,444 ft/90 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 Badlands Park Hdq (INTS2), 7.0 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 16:00. measured daily
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