Storm Station

Badlands National Park, South Dakota

National Park in Pennington County, South Dakota

Air quality

The air at Badlands National Park

Index 46, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 8 PM from its reporting area, Rapid City (SD), 44 miles off.

46Good
  • Fine particles (PM2.5)32Good-
  • Ozone41Good-
  • Coarse particles (PM10)46Good-

The days ahead

Yesterday measured 31, good.

Smoke, the next 41 hours

Little smoke near the ground through Wed 12 PM: the index from smoke stays at 22 or under.

MonTueWed

Precipitation

What has fallen at Badlands National Park

None in the last 3 days, to Mon 7 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.

Last 24 hours
0.00in
Last 3 days
0.00in

Visibility

How far you can see at Badlands National Park, the next 41 hours

Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Wed 12 PM.

MonTueWed

Park

Designation
National Park
Area
379 sq mi
Height at its point
3,164 ft
County
Pennington County
State
South Dakota
Latitude
43.7045° N
Longitude
102.5718° W

What is measuring near here

The 6 instruments nearest Badlands National Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.7 miles away.

measured now4 instruments

SD RWIS ScenicSD062

Beside a road/8.1 mi away/2,920 ft/244 ft below here

temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip

Cheyenne River At Red Shirt06403700

At a river or reservoir gauge/16.1 mi away/2,653 ft/511 ft below here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

Rapid CityRAP

At an airfield/33.8 mi away/3,165 ft/1 ft above here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

Citizen station GW0967GW0967

In a volunteer observer's own ground/39.8 mi away/3,248 ft/84 ft above here

temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure

measured daily2 instruments

Wasta 21.6 SSWSD-PN-19

In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.7 mi away/2,933 ft/231 ft below here

precip, snowfall, snow depth

WastaWTAS2

At a cooperative observer's station/25.6 mi away/2,320 ft/844 ft below here

snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low

0in

Snow on the ground

Measured at Wasta (WTAS2), 25.6 miles from here, read 5 Oct, 07:00. measured daily

Elsewhere in South Dakota

24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.

Near Badlands National Park

The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.

Parks near Badlands National Park

Every park in the state

Near Badlands National Park

River and lake gauges