Mount Rushmore RAWSRHRS2
A remote fire weather station/0.4 mi away/5,272 ft/208 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Parks/South Dakota/Mount Rushmore National Memorial
Mount Rushmore National Memorial, South Dakota
National Memorial in Pennington County, South Dakota37°
53°/42°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 32°·Light breeze 7 mph NNW
Now. Mount Rushmore National Memorial is 37° and mostly clear at 7 PM. With the wind it feels like 32°. The dew point is 19°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north-northwest at 7 mph, gusting to 24 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 29° 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 52°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 29°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% lit, and sets at 9 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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 3 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
44Air quality
45%Humidity
34%Cloud
Now
7:00 PM
37feels32
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 15
5342
14mph
Fri
Oct 16
5229
12mph
Sat
Oct 17
7441
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6250
mostly clear day
Mon
Oct 19
6240
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6946
mostly clear day
Wed
Oct 21
6953
mostly clear day
37°
53°42°
52°29°
74°41°
62°50°
62°40°
69°46°
69°53°
As of 7:00 PM in Mount Rushmore National Memorial, South Dakota.
Air quality
The air at Mount Rushmore National Memorial
Index 44, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 7 PM from its reporting area, Rapid City (SD), 17 miles off.
44Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)23Good16.8 mi
- Ozone32Good33 ppb20.2 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)44Good16.8 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 16, good.
GoodModerate
- 16YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 12 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Mount Rushmore National Memorial
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 6 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 Mount Rushmore National Memorial, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 12 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- National Memorial
- Area
- 1.98 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 5,064 ft
- County
- Pennington County
- State
- South Dakota
- Latitude
- 43.8804° N
- Longitude
- 103.4539° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Mount Rushmore National Memorial, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
SD RWIS Three ForksSD067
Beside a road/5.7 mi away/4,731 ft/333 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
CusterCUT
At an airfield/12.9 mi away/5,534 ft/470 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW3529GW3529
In a volunteer observer's own ground/24.3 mi away/3,393 ft/1,671 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Mount Rushmore National MemorialRNMS2
At a cooperative observer's station/0.3 mi away/4,826 ft/238 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Hill City 3.4 ENESD-PN-107
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.8 mi away/4,731 ft/333 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Mount Rushmore National Memorial (RNMS2), 0.3 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 Mount Rushmore National Memorial
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Keystonetown, 2 mi
- Black Hillsfeature, 4 mi
- Black Elk Peakfeature, 4 mi
- Hill Citycity, 7 mi
- Custercity, 11 mi
- Colonial Pine Hillscommunity, 11 mi
- Hermosatown, 13 mi
- Johnson Sidingcommunity, 14 mi
- Rapid Citycity, 18 mi
- Fairburntown, 18 mi
- Blackhawkcommunity, 20 mi
- Green Valleycommunity, 20 mi