SD RWIS McLaughlinSD042
Beside a road/9.9 mi away/2,093 ft/313 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Weather/South Dakota/Bullhead
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Bullhead until 3 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Bullhead is 42° and mostly cloudy at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 31°. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Strong breeze from the north-northwest at 32 mph, gusting to 42 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 34° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 50°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 28 mph. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 33°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% 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 10 hours 59 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Bullhead, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Bismarck (ND), 74 miles off.
Yesterday measured 52, moderate.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
0.03 in in the last 24 hours, 0.07 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 6 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Bullhead, South DakotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Bullhead, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 9.9 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
SD RWIS McLaughlinSD042
Beside a road/9.9 mi away/2,093 ft/313 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Grand River RAWSGRRS2
A remote fire weather station/10.5 mi away/2,093 ft/313 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
MobridgeMBG
At an airfield/35.8 mi away/1,690 ft/90 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
McLaughlinMCGS2
At a cooperative observer's station/12.3 mi away/2,054 ft/274 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Mclaughlin 0.1 NSD-CR-16
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.4 mi away/2,004 ft/224 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 35.8 mi from Bullhead, South Dakota. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:52 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 2,400 ft; the ceiling is 2,400 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
45.0 F with a dew point of 37.0 F, 73 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,800 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,400 ft.
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 22 mph, gusting 39 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 54 mph.
The full report of Mobridge, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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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.