Whitewood Creek Near Whitewood06436190
At a river or reservoir gauge/13.7 mi away/3,163 ft/183 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Parks/South Dakota/Rocky Point State Recreation Area
Rocky Point State Recreation Area, South Dakota
State Recreation Area in Butte County, South Dakota...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM MDT FRIDAY... * WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 27 degrees. * WHERE...Portions of northwestern and southwestern South Dakota. * WHEN...Until 9 AM MDT Friday. * 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.
39°
55°/42°
Partly cloudy·
Feels like 30°·Moderate breeze 18 mph WNW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Rocky Point State Recreation Area until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Rocky Point State Recreation Area is 39° and partly cloudy at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 30°. The dew point is 25°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the west-northwest at 18 mph, gusting to 36 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 32° 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 79°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
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. 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 1 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
31Air quality
56%Humidity
51%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
39feels30
18mph
Today
Oct 15
5542
32mph
Fri
Oct 16
5631
17mph
Sat
Oct 17
7945
mostly clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6451
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
6743
13mph
Tue
Oct 20
7649
mostly clear day
Wed
Oct 21
7354
mostly clear day
39°
55°42°
56°31°
79°45°
64°51°
67°43°
76°49°
73°54°
As of 11:00 PM in Rocky Point State Recreation Area, South Dakota.
Air quality
The air at Rocky Point State Recreation Area
Index 31, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Rapid City (SD), 48 miles off.
31Good
- Ozone31Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)4Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 16, good.
GoodModerate
- 16YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Rocky Point State Recreation Area
0.12 in in the last 24 hours, 0.18 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.12in
- Last 3 days
- 0.18in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 67%
Visibility
How far you can see at Rocky Point State Recreation Area, the next 44 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 Recreation Area
- Area
- 0.62 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 2,980 ft
- County
- Butte County
- State
- South Dakota
- Latitude
- 44.7134° N
- Longitude
- 103.7103° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Rocky Point State Recreation Area, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Sd RWIS Castle RockSD514
Beside a road/14.6 mi away/3,110 ft/130 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
SpearfishSPF
At an airfield/16.5 mi away/3,892 ft/912 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW2976FW2976
In a volunteer observer's own ground/16.5 mi away/3,962 ft/982 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Belle Fourche 0.7 ESD-BT-26
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.1 mi away/3,041 ft/61 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
NewellNWLS2
At a cooperative observer's station/13.9 mi away/2,848 ft/132 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.
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Near Rocky Point State Recreation Area
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Fruitdaletown, 3 mi
- Belle Fourchecity, 7 mi
- Nislandtown, 8 mi
- St. Ongecommunity, 12 mi
- Newellcity, 14 mi
- North Spearfishcommunity, 16 mi
- Valecommunity, 16 mi
- Spearfishcity, 17 mi
- Whitewoodcity, 18 mi
- Mountain Plainscommunity, 19 mi
- Crook Citycommunity, 19 mi
- Boulder Canyoncommunity, 23 mi