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Beside a road/8.0 mi away/2,618 ft/71 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Mountain passes/South Dakota/Cedar Pass
Cedar Pass, South Dakota
Mountain pass in Jackson County, South Dakota, at 2,689 ft* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 26. * WHERE...Portions of northwestern and southwestern South Dakota and northeast Wyoming. * WHEN...Until 9 AM MDT this morning. * 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.
38°
55°/31°
Partly cloudy·
Feels like 28°·Fresh breeze 19 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Cedar Pass until 9 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 21 degrees warmer: a high of 76° after 55° today.
Now. Cedar Pass is 38° and partly cloudy at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 28°. The dew point is 31°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the northwest at 19 mph, gusting to 32 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 53° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 41° by 5 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 76°, and the coolest Monday, near 66°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 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 1 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
31Air quality
70%Humidity
45%Cloud
Now
3:00 AM
38feels28
19mph
Today
Oct 16
5531
22mph
Sat
Oct 17
7640
22mph
Sun
Oct 18
6943
19mph
Mon
Oct 19
6639
clear day
Tue
Oct 20
7642
13mph
Wed
Oct 21
7649
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 22
7648
12mph
38°
55°31°
76°40°
69°43°
66°39°
76°42°
76°49°
76°48°
As of 3:00 AM in Cedar Pass, South Dakota.
Air quality
The air at Cedar Pass
Index 31, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Rapid City (SD), 70 miles off.
31Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)15Good-
- Ozone31Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)19Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 36, good.
GoodModerate
- 36YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 40 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Cedar Pass
0.35 in in the last 24 hours, 0.39 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.35in
- Last 3 days
- 0.39in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 90%
Visibility
How far you can see at Cedar Pass, the next 40 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
- 2,689 ft
- County
- Jackson County
- State
- South Dakota
- Latitude
- 43.7553° N
- Longitude
- 101.9360° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Cedar Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.8 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Pinnacles RAWSPINS2
A remote fire weather station/17.4 mi away/3,074 ft/385 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
PhilipPHP
At an airfield/26.4 mi away/2,204 ft/485 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Badlands Park HdqINTS2
At a cooperative observer's station/0.8 mi away/2,444 ft/245 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Interior 0.6 ESESD-JK-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.9 mi away/2,335 ft/354 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 Badlands Park Hdq (INTS2), 0.8 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 Cedar Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
Mountain passes near Cedar Pass
- Norbeck Pass4 mi
- Big Foot Pass7 mi
- Chamberlain Pass13 mi
- Dillon Pass14 mi
- Hughes Pass15 mi
- Sage Creek Pass20 mi
- Cottonwood Pass36 mi
- Gobbler Pass79 mi