Sd RWIS Cactus FlatsSD513
Beside a road/11.1 mi away/2,618 ft/240 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Weather/South Dakota/Interior
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Interior until 9 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 21 degrees warmer: a high of 75° after 54° today.
Now. Interior is 41° and mostly cloudy at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 29°. The dew point is 32°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Strong breeze from the north-northwest at 32 mph, gusting to 47 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 41° by 5 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 76°, and the coolest Monday, near 64°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 23 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:03 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 1 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Interior, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 48, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Rapid City (SD), 69 miles off.
Yesterday measured 16, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
0.21 in in the last 24 hours, 0.26 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 6 PM, lowest 10 miles Fri 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Interior, South DakotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Interior, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Sd RWIS Cactus FlatsSD513
Beside a road/11.1 mi away/2,618 ft/240 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Pinnacles RAWSPINS2
A remote fire weather station/16.6 mi away/3,074 ft/696 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
PhilipPHP
At an airfield/29.5 mi away/2,204 ft/174 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Interior 0.6 ESESD-JK-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.5 mi away/2,335 ft/43 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Badlands Park HdqINTS2
At a cooperative observer's station/2.4 mi away/2,444 ft/66 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 29.5 mi from Interior, South Dakota. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 3,700 ft; the ceiling is 3,700 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
45.0 F with a dew point of 30.0 F, 55 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 3,400 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 3,700 ft.
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 28 mph, gusting 41 mph: force 6, a strong breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 62 mph.
The full report of Philip, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Badlands Park Hdq (INTS2), 2.4 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 16:00. 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.