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A remote fire weather station/5.8 mi away/3,074 ft/344 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/South Dakota/Sage Creek Pass
Sage Creek Pass, South Dakota
Mountain pass in Pennington County, South Dakota, at 2,730 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.
40°
52°/31°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 28°·Near gale 35 mph NNW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Sage Creek 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 74° after 52° today.
Now. Sage Creek Pass is 40° and mostly cloudy at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 28°. The dew point is 28°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Near gale from the north-northwest at 35 mph, gusting to 49 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 49° 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 74°, and the coolest Monday, near 62°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 26 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:04 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 9:50 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
64%Humidity
79%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
40feels28
35mph
Today
Oct 16
5231
35mph
Sat
Oct 17
7440
26mph
Sun
Oct 18
6641
21mph
Mon
Oct 19
6237
clear day
Tue
Oct 20
7442
14mph
Wed
Oct 21
7449
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 22
7349
14mph
40°
52°31°
74°40°
66°41°
62°37°
74°42°
74°49°
73°49°
As of 12:00 AM in Sage Creek Pass, South Dakota.
Air quality
The air at Sage Creek Pass
Index 48, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Rapid City (SD), 51 miles off.
48Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)31Good19.6 mi
- Ozone32Good20 ppb19.6 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)48Good19.6 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 16, good.
GoodModerate
- 16YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Sage Creek Pass
0.20 in in the last 24 hours, 0.21 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.20in
- Last 3 days
- 0.21in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 95%
Visibility
How far you can see at Sage Creek Pass, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Mountain pass
- Height
- 2,730 ft
- County
- Pennington County
- State
- South Dakota
- Latitude
- 43.8208° N
- Longitude
- 102.3182° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Sage Creek Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.8 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
SD RWIS ScenicSD062
Beside a road/12.8 mi away/2,920 ft/190 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
PhilipPHP
At an airfield/39.1 mi away/2,204 ft/526 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/9.5 mi away/2,684 ft/46 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
WastaWTAS2
At a cooperative observer's station/17.4 mi away/2,320 ft/410 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 Wasta (WTAS2), 17.4 miles from here, read 13 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in South Dakota
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Sage Creek Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
Mountain passes near Sage Creek Pass
- Dillon Pass6 mi
- Big Foot Pass13 mi
- Norbeck Pass16 mi
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- Cottonwood Pass21 mi
- Chamberlain Pass31 mi
- Hughes Pass34 mi
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