Rapid City - Rapid Creek above WRFRCVS2
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.1 mi away/3,014 ft/28 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/South Dakota/Green Valley
Freeze Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Green Valley until 9 AM tomorrow. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Green Valley is 42° and overcast at 8 PM. With the wind it feels like 32°. The dew point is 24°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Strong breeze from the north-northwest at 30 mph, gusting to 54 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 30° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Saturday, near 79°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 28 mph. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 29°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and sets at 8:57 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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 3 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 8:00 PM in Green Valley, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 44, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 8 PM from its reporting area, Rapid City (SD), 8 miles off.
Yesterday measured 16, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 12 PM.
Precipitation
0.01 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 7 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 12 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Green Valley, South DakotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Green Valley, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Rapid City - Rapid Creek above WRFRCVS2
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.1 mi away/3,014 ft/28 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Rapid CityRAP
At an airfield/3.0 mi away/3,165 ft/123 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Sd RWIS EllsworthSD523
Beside a road/5.7 mi away/3,071 ft/29 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW3529GW3529
In a volunteer observer's own ground/16.5 mi away/3,393 ft/351 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Rapid Valley 1.3 SSWSD-PN-73
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.6 mi away/3,137 ft/95 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Wfo Rapid CityUNRS2
At a cooperative observer's station/5.4 mi away/3,356 ft/314 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 3.0 mi from Green Valley, South Dakota. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 7:52 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 6,000 ft; the ceiling is 6,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
43.0 F with a dew point of 24.0 F, 47 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 4,300 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 6,000 ft.
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 33 mph, gusting 54 mph: force 7, a near gale on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 59 mph.
The full report of Rapid City, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Wfo Rapid City (UNRS2), 5.4 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 06:00. measured daily
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.