Magpie Creek RAWSPRMS2
A remote fire weather station/5.7 mi away/2,844 ft/190 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/South Dakota/Parmelee
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Parmelee until 4 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 22 degrees warmer: a high of 73° after 51° today.
Now. Parmelee is 42° and overcast at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 30°. The dew point is 30°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Near gale from the northwest at 33 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 48° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 40° by 9 PM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 75°, and the coolest Monday, near 64°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 32 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:47 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 11 hours 2 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Parmelee, South Dakota.
Precipitation
0.39 in in the last 24 hours, 0.46 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 7 PM, lowest 10 miles Fri 9 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Parmelee, South DakotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Parmelee, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Magpie Creek RAWSPRMS2
A remote fire weather station/5.7 mi away/2,844 ft/190 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
RosebudSUO
At an airfield/9.6 mi away/2,700 ft/46 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Sd RWIS VetalSD573
Beside a road/10.5 mi away/3,294 ft/640 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Parmelee 0.5 ESD-TD-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/2,643 ft/11 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Mission 14SMSNS2
At a cooperative observer's station/25.7 mi away/2,769 ft/115 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 9.6 mi from Parmelee, South Dakota. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:35 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 3,500 ft; the ceiling is 3,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
42.8 F with a dew point of 30.2 F, 61 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,900 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 3,500 ft.
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 20 mph, gusting 33 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 45 mph.
The full report of Rosebud, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Mission 14S (MSNS2), 25.7 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. 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.