Sturgis49B
At an airfield/3.6 mi away/3,232 ft/12 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Parks/South Dakota/Bear Butte State Park
Bear Butte State Park, South Dakota
State Park in Meade County, South Dakota61°
82°/58°
Clear·
Feels like 61°·Gentle breeze 9 mph W
Now. Bear Butte State Park is 61° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 37°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 81° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 53° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Friday, near 83°, and the coolest Monday, near 51°. Rain is likely Monday (67%). Rain is possible Sunday (37%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:25 PM. The Moon is a waning crescent, 15% lit, and rises at 3:34 AM after midnight. The next new Moon is Saturday, Oct 10. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 29 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
35Air quality
42%Humidity
1%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
61feels61
now, clear
Today
Oct 6
8258
19mph
Wed
Oct 7
7652
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 8
7249
mostly clear day
Fri
Oct 9
8351
mostly clear day
Sat
Oct 10
8260
16mph
Sun
Oct 11
5547
37%
16mph
Mon
Oct 12
5140
67%
61°
82°58°
76°52°
72°49°
83°51°
82°60°
55°47°
51°40°
As of 1:00 AM in Bear Butte State Park, South Dakota.
Air quality
The air at Bear Butte State Park
Index 35, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Rapid City (SD), 27 miles off.
35Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)32Good-
- Ozone35Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)33Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 48, good.
GoodModerate
- 48YesterdayOct 5
Smoke, the next 42 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Wed 6 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Bear Butte State Park
None in the last 3 days, to Tue 12 AM. 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 Bear Butte State Park, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Wed 6 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 2.99 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 3,220 ft
- County
- Meade County
- State
- South Dakota
- Latitude
- 44.4600° N
- Longitude
- 103.4217° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Bear Butte State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station GW4578GW4578
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.2 mi away/3,303 ft/83 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Bear Butte Creek At Avalanche Road At Sturgis06437300
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.4 mi away/3,502 ft/282 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Sd RWIS KirkSD585
Beside a road/18.5 mi away/5,010 ft/1,790 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Fort MeadeFTMS2
At a cooperative observer's station/4.5 mi away/3,297 ft/77 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Sturgis 0.7 ESD-MD-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.1 mi away/3,409 ft/189 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Fort Meade (FTMS2), 4.5 miles from here, read 5 Oct, 18:00. measured daily
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