Porcupine RAWSPRGS2
A remote fire weather station/11.8 mi away/3,642 ft/373 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/South Dakota/Manderson-White Horse Creek
Now. Manderson-White Horse Creek is 53° and clear at 8 PM. The dew point is 38°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northeast at 10 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 36° by 8 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 Thursday, near 77°, and the coolest Saturday, near 60°. Rain is possible Saturday (44%). The windiest day is Friday, with wind to 27 mph. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 36°.
The sky now. The Moon is a first quarter, 52% lit, and sets at 12:59 AM after midnight. 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 bright Moon hides all but the brightest of them. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 10 hours 56 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 8:00 PM in Manderson-White Horse Creek, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 42, good, led by fine particles. Read at 7 PM from its reporting area, Wind Cave (SD), 55 miles off.
Yesterday measured 44, good.
No smoke near the ground through Tue 1 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Sun 7 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Tue 1 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Manderson-White Horse Creek, South DakotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Manderson-White Horse Creek, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.4 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Porcupine RAWSPRGS2
A remote fire weather station/11.8 mi away/3,642 ft/373 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Pine RidgeIEN
At an airfield/14.8 mi away/3,310 ft/41 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Sd RWIS BateslandSD505
Beside a road/19.1 mi away/3,435 ft/166 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Manderson-White Horse Creek 2.5 NSD-OL-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.4 mi away/2,990 ft/279 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Oglala 1SOGAS2
At a cooperative observer's station/13.4 mi away/3,002 ft/267 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 14.8 mi from Manderson-White Horse Creek, South Dakota. From its report of Oct 18, 2026, 6:52 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
51.0 F with a dew point of 38.0 F, 61 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 3,000 ft up.
From the east northeast (60 degrees) at 3 mph: force 1, a light air on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 25 mph.
The full report of Pine Ridge, 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.