SD RWIS Slim ButtesSD064
Beside a road/1.0 mi away/3,117 ft/215 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Mountain passes/South Dakota/Summit Pass
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Summit Pass until 9 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 24 degrees warmer: a high of 76° after 52° today.
Now. Summit Pass is 35° and partly cloudy at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 25°. The dew point is 26°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 17 mph, gusting to 30 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 52° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 38° by 11 PM, 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 62°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:06 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 9:47 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.
As of 12:00 AM in Summit Pass, South Dakota.
Precipitation
0.08 in in the last 24 hours, 0.38 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 6 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Summit Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
SD RWIS Slim ButtesSD064
Beside a road/1.0 mi away/3,117 ft/215 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Buffalo 13 ESE94081
At a climate reference station/11.5 mi away/2,883 ft/449 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Buffalo 13ESEBCRS2
At a river or reservoir gauge/11.9 mi away/2,881 ft/451 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Buffalo2WX
At an airfield/24.5 mi away/3,015 ft/317 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Bison 24.1 SWSD-PK-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/14.3 mi away/2,785 ft/547 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
HooverHVRS2
At a cooperative observer's station/17.9 mi away/2,841 ft/491 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.