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A remote fire weather station/3.3 mi away/3,074 ft/371 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/South Dakota/Dillon Pass
Dillon Pass, South Dakota
Mountain pass in Pennington County, South Dakota, at 2,703 ft44°
74°/41°
Clear·
Feels like 36°·Fresh breeze 20 mph SSW
Now. Dillon Pass is 44° and clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 36°. The dew point is 22°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the south-southwest at 20 mph, gusting to 33 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 74° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 42° 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 Thursday, near 76°, and the coolest Monday, near 61°. Rain is possible Friday (42%). The windiest day is Friday, with wind to 23 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:02 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 43% lit, and sets at 10:51 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 10 hours 58 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
25Air quality
43%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
44feels36
20mph
Today
Oct 17
7441
25mph
Sun
Oct 18
6742
20mph
Mon
Oct 19
6138
clear day
Tue
Oct 20
7443
clear day
Wed
Oct 21
6948
14mph
Thu
Oct 22
7648
14mph
Fri
Oct 23
7154
42%
23mph
44°
74°41°
67°42°
61°38°
74°43°
69°48°
76°48°
71°54°
As of 12:00 AM in Dillon Pass, South Dakota.
Air quality
The air at Dillon Pass
Index 25, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Rapid City (SD), 56 miles off.
25Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)0Good-
- Ozone25Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)4Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 36, good.
GoodModerate
- 36YesterdayOct 16
Smoke, the next 43 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 6 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Dillon Pass
None in the last 24 hours; 0.29 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.29in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Dillon Pass, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 6 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Mountain pass
- Height
- 2,703 ft
- County
- Pennington County
- State
- South Dakota
- Latitude
- 43.8436° N
- Longitude
- 102.1952° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Dillon Pass, 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 CottonwoodSD611
Beside a road/12.7 mi away/2,500 ft/203 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
PhilipPHP
At an airfield/32.9 mi away/2,204 ft/499 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Wall 13.0 SSESD-PN-9
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.7 mi away/2,684 ft/19 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Badlands Park HdqINTS2
At a cooperative observer's station/13.8 mi away/2,444 ft/259 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), 13.8 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 Dillon Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
Mountain passes near Dillon Pass
- Sage Creek Pass6 mi
- Big Foot Pass8 mi
- Norbeck Pass11 mi
- Cedar Pass14 mi
- Chamberlain Pass25 mi
- Cottonwood Pass26 mi
- Hughes Pass28 mi
- Gobbler Pass68 mi