Pinnacles RAWSPINS2
A remote fire weather station/10.8 mi away/3,074 ft/478 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/South Dakota/Big Foot Pass
Big Foot Pass, South Dakota
Mountain pass in Pennington County, South Dakota, at 2,596 ft...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°
53°/31°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 27°·Strong breeze 31 mph NNW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Big Foot Pass until 9 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 22 degrees warmer: a high of 75° after 53° today.
Now. Big Foot Pass is 39° and mostly cloudy at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 27°. The dew point is 32°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Strong breeze from the north-northwest at 31 mph, gusting to 47 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 40° 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 tomorrow, near 75°, and the coolest Monday, near 63°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 25 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:03 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 9:49 PM. 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 sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 0 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
48Air quality
62%Humidity
80%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
39feels27
31mph
Today
Oct 16
5331
32mph
Sat
Oct 17
7540
25mph
Sun
Oct 18
6742
20mph
Mon
Oct 19
6337
clear day
Tue
Oct 20
7542
13mph
Wed
Oct 21
7549
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 22
7449
13mph
39°
53°31°
75°40°
67°42°
63°37°
75°42°
75°49°
74°49°
As of 1:00 AM in Big Foot Pass, South Dakota.
Air quality
The air at Big Foot Pass
Index 48, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Rapid City (SD), 64 miles off.
48Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)31Good6.6 mi
- Ozone33Good20 ppb6.6 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)48Good6.6 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 38, good.
GoodModerate
- 38YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Big Foot Pass
0.31 in in the last 24 hours, 0.40 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.31in
- Last 3 days
- 0.40in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 77%
Visibility
How far you can see at Big Foot Pass, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 6 PM, lowest 10 miles Fri 7 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Mountain pass
- Height
- 2,596 ft
- County
- Pennington County
- State
- South Dakota
- Latitude
- 43.7986° N
- Longitude
- 102.0527° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Big Foot Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Sd RWIS Cactus FlatsSD513
Beside a road/11.8 mi away/2,618 ft/22 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
PhilipPHP
At an airfield/28.4 mi away/2,204 ft/392 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Wall 13.8 SSESD-PN-80
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.1 mi away/2,658 ft/62 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Badlands Park HdqINTS2
At a cooperative observer's station/6.1 mi away/2,444 ft/152 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), 6.1 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 16:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in South Dakota
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Big Foot Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
Mountain passes near Big Foot Pass
- Norbeck Pass3 mi
- Cedar Pass7 mi
- Dillon Pass8 mi
- Sage Creek Pass13 mi
- Chamberlain Pass18 mi
- Hughes Pass21 mi
- Cottonwood Pass32 mi
- Gobbler Pass74 mi