A remote fire weather station/3.4 mi away/4,478 ft/294 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Parks/South Dakota/Wind Cave National Park
Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota
National Park in Custer County, South Dakota38°
57°/45°
Clear·
Feels like 30°·Moderate breeze 14 mph NW
Now. Wind Cave National Park is 38° and clear at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 30°. The dew point is 20°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 14 mph, gusting to 30 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 Wednesday, near 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 53°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 29°.
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 4 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
37Air quality
61%Humidity
12%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
38feels30
14mph
Today
Oct 15
5745
20mph
Fri
Oct 16
5329
14mph
Sat
Oct 17
7142
18mph
Sun
Oct 18
6649
16mph
Mon
Oct 19
6441
clear day
Tue
Oct 20
7246
mostly clear day
Wed
Oct 21
7353
mostly clear day
38°
57°45°
53°29°
71°42°
66°49°
64°41°
72°46°
73°53°
As of 11:00 PM in Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota.
Air quality
The air at Wind Cave National Park
Index 37, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Wind Cave (SD), 3 miles off.
37Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)34Good3.1 mi
- Ozone37Good38 ppb3.1 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)6Good3.1 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 32, good.
GoodModerate
- 32YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Wind Cave National Park
0.17 in in the last 24 hours, 0.37 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.17in
- Last 3 days
- 0.37in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 46%
Visibility
How far you can see at Wind Cave National Park, 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
- National Park
- Area
- 53 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 4,184 ft
- County
- Custer County
- State
- South Dakota
- Latitude
- 43.5802° N
- Longitude
- 103.4311° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Wind Cave National 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 now3 instruments
SD RWIS PringleSD055
Beside a road/8.2 mi away/4,869 ft/685 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
CusterCUT
At an airfield/13.9 mi away/5,534 ft/1,350 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Hot Springs 7.9 NSD-CS-24
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.3 mi away/4,150 ft/34 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Wind CaveWNDS2
At a cooperative observer's station/3.3 mi away/4,229 ft/45 ft above 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 Wind Cave (WNDS2), 3.3 miles from here, read 13 Oct, 13:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in South Dakota
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Wind Cave National Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Pringletown, 8 mi
- Buffalo Gaptown, 8 mi
- Hot Springscity, 10 mi
- Maverick Junctioncommunity, 12 mi
- Fairburntown, 13 mi
- Oralcommunity, 14 mi
- Custercity, 15 mi
- Angosturacommunity, 18 mi
- Black Elk Peakfeature, 20 mi
- Black Hillsfeature, 21 mi
- Hermosatown, 22 mi
- Smithwickcommunity, 22 mi