Airports/South Dakota/Rapid City Regional Airport

Rapid City Regional Airport, South Dakota

Medium airport in Pennington County, South Dakota

51° 81°/49°

Clear· Feels like 51°·Light breeze 7 mph NW

Coming up. Tomorrow is 17 degrees cooler: a high of 64° after 81° today.

Now. Rapid City Regional Airport is 51° and clear at 7:15 AM. The dew point is 38°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the northwest at 7 mph.

Today and tonight. It warms to about 81° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 51° by 5 AM, under cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.

The week. The warmest day ahead is Friday, near 79°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 64°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is Tuesday, with wind to 26 mph.

The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:34 PM. The Moon is a waning gibbous, 80% lit, and rises at 8:19 PM. The next new Moon is Saturday, Oct 10. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 11 hours 46 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.

0UV Low

-Air quality

59%Humidity

0%Cloud

Now

7:15 AM

51feels51

Today

Sep 30

8149

13mph

Thu

Oct 1

6450

15%

15mph

Fri

Oct 2

7949

25%

14mph

Sat

Oct 3

7155

24mph

Sun

Oct 4

6951

13mph

Mon

Oct 5

7652

21mph

Tue

Oct 6

7756

26mph

51°

81°49°

64°50°

79°49°

71°55°

69°51°

76°52°

77°56°

As of 7:15 AM in Rapid City Regional Airport, South Dakota.

Airfield

Code: RAP
ICAO: KRAP
IATA: RAP
Field elevation: 3,204 ft
Serves: Rapid City
Kind: Medium airport
Scheduled service: Yes
Its own instrument: RAP
Wind now: From 290° at 7 mph, read 30 Sep, 06:52

Runways

Runway	Length	Width	Surface	Heading, true	Wind along it now	Crosswind now
05 / 23	3,601 ft	75 ft	Asphalt	62° / 242°	5 mph head, on 23	5 mph from the right
14 / 32	8,701 ft	150 ft	Concrete	151° / 331°	5 mph head, on 32	5 mph from the left

Runways from their surveyed ends, north up, lengths and positions to scale; the rose in the corner is the wind now.

What is measuring near here

The 5 instruments nearest Rapid City Regional Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.0 miles away.

measured now3 instruments

Rapid CityRAP

At an airfield/0.0 mi away/3,165 ft/39 ft below here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

Rapid City - Rapid Creek above WRFRCVS2

At a river or reservoir gauge/2.5 mi away/3,014 ft/190 ft below here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

Sd RWIS EllsworthSD523

Beside a road/5.3 mi away/3,071 ft/133 ft below here

temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip

measured daily2 instruments

Rapid City 12.6 ESD-PN-95