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Beside a road/1.5 mi away/6,516 ft/183 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Mountain passes/South Dakota/O'Neil Pass
O'Neil Pass, South Dakota
Mountain pass in Lawrence County, South Dakota, at 6,699 ft42°
70°/38°
Clear·
Feels like 36°·Gentle breeze 9 mph WSW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 10 degrees cooler: a high of 60° after 70° today.
Now. O'Neil Pass is 42° and clear at 5 AM. With the wind it feels like 36°. The dew point is 17°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-southwest at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 69° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 45° 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 67°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. Rain is possible Friday (43%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:09 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 43% lit, and sets at 10:57 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 57 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
38Air quality
33%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
5:00 AM
42feels36
now, clear
Today
Oct 17
7038
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6044
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
6238
clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6645
clear day
Wed
Oct 21
6545
clear day
Thu
Oct 22
6748
partly cloudy day
Fri
Oct 23
6250
43%
13mph
42°
70°38°
60°44°
62°38°
66°45°
65°45°
67°48°
62°50°
As of 5:00 AM in O'Neil Pass, South Dakota.
Air quality
The air at O'Neil Pass
Index 38, good, led by ozone. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Rapid City (SD), 37 miles off.
38Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)7Good-
- Ozone38Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)3Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 34, good.
GoodModerate
- 34YesterdayOct 16
Smoke, the next 44 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Mon 12 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at O'Neil Pass
None in the last 24 hours; 0.03 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.03in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at O'Neil Pass, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Mon 12 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Mountain pass
- Height
- 6,699 ft
- County
- Lawrence County
- State
- South Dakota
- Latitude
- 44.2012° N
- Longitude
- 104.0067° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest O'Neil Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.9 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Blind Park SnotelBLPS2
A snow pillow on a mountain/6.6 mi away/6,890 ft/191 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW2976FW2976
In a volunteer observer's own ground/21.8 mi away/3,962 ft/2,737 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
SpearfishSPF
At an airfield/22.2 mi away/3,892 ft/2,807 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Lead (LEAS2), 15.6 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 09:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in South Dakota
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
AberdeencityBadlandsfeatureBelle FourchecityBlack Elk PeakfeatureBlack HillsfeatureBrookingscityCustercityDeadwoodcityGreat Bearski areaHot SpringscityHuroncityLake OahefeatureLeadcityMitchellcityPierrecityRapid CitycitySioux FallscitySpearfishcitySturgiscityTerry Peakski areaVermillioncityWatertowncityWind Cave National ParkfeatureYanktoncity
Near O'Neil Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Terry Peakski area, 12 mi
- Leadcity, 16 mi
- Central Citycity, 16 mi
- Deadwoodcity, 18 mi
- Mountain Plainscommunity, 20 mi
- Spearfishcity, 21 mi
- North Spearfishcommunity, 22 mi
- Boulder Canyoncommunity, 24 mi
- Crook Citycommunity, 25 mi
- Whitewoodcity, 26 mi
- St. Ongecommunity, 28 mi
- Hill Citycity, 29 mi
Mountain passes near O'Neil Pass
- Gobbler Pass54 mi
- Cottonwood Pass78 mi
- Sage Creek Pass88 mi
- Summit Pass91 mi
- J B Pass92 mi
- Dillon Pass93 mi
- Big Foot Pass101 mi
- Norbeck Pass104 mi