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Mountain passes/South Dakota/Norbeck Pass
Norbeck Pass, South Dakota
Mountain pass in Jackson County, South Dakota, at 2,668 ft43°
55°/31°
Clear·
Feels like 35°·Moderate breeze 18 mph S
Coming up. Tomorrow is 20 degrees warmer: a high of 75° after 55° today.
Now. Norbeck Pass is 43° and clear at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 35°. The dew point is 31°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the south at 18 mph, gusting to 30 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight holds near 42°, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 77°, and the coolest Monday, near 62°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 23 mph.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 35% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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
30Air quality
70%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
10:00 PM
43feels35
18mph
Today
Oct 16
5531
21mph
Sat
Oct 17
7540
23mph
Sun
Oct 18
6742
19mph
Mon
Oct 19
6238
clear day
Tue
Oct 20
7442
clear day
Wed
Oct 21
7048
12mph
Thu
Oct 22
7747
13mph
43°
55°31°
75°40°
67°42°
62°38°
74°42°
70°48°
77°47°
As of 10:00 PM in Norbeck Pass, South Dakota.
Air quality
The air at Norbeck Pass
Index 30, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Rapid City (SD), 67 miles off.
30Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)5Good-
- Ozone30Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)6Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 36, good.
GoodModerate
- 36YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 45 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 6 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Norbeck Pass
None in the last 24 hours; 0.30 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.30in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Norbeck Pass, the next 45 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
- 2,668 ft
- County
- Jackson County
- State
- South Dakota
- Latitude
- 43.7750° N
- Longitude
- 102.0021° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Norbeck 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
Pinnacles RAWSPINS2
A remote fire weather station/13.8 mi away/3,074 ft/406 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
PhilipPHP
At an airfield/27.6 mi away/2,204 ft/464 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Badlands Park HdqINTS2
At a cooperative observer's station/3.1 mi away/2,444 ft/224 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Interior 0.6 ESESD-JK-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.9 mi away/2,335 ft/333 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), 3.1 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 Norbeck Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
Mountain passes near Norbeck Pass
- Big Foot Pass3 mi
- Cedar Pass4 mi
- Dillon Pass11 mi
- Chamberlain Pass16 mi
- Sage Creek Pass16 mi
- Hughes Pass18 mi
- Cottonwood Pass33 mi
- Gobbler Pass76 mi