Whitewood Creek Near Whitewood06436190
At a river or reservoir gauge/13.7 mi away/3,163 ft/183 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Parks/South Dakota/Rocky Point State Recreation Area
Coming up. Tomorrow is 9 degrees cooler: a high of 78° after 87° today.
Now. Rocky Point State Recreation Area is 65° and clear at 11 PM. The dew point is 35°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the west-southwest at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 63° by 5 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 85°, and the coolest Monday, near 55°. Rain is likely Monday (70%). Rain is possible Sunday (42%).
The sky now. The Moon is a waning crescent, 23% lit, and rises at 2:16 AM after midnight. The next new Moon is Saturday, Oct 10. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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 32 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Rocky Point State Recreation Area, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 37, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Rapid City (SD), 48 miles off.
Yesterday measured 31, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Wed 6 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.02 in over the last 3 days, to Mon 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Wed 6 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Rocky Point State Recreation Area, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Whitewood Creek Near Whitewood06436190
At a river or reservoir gauge/13.7 mi away/3,163 ft/183 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Sd RWIS Castle RockSD514
Beside a road/14.6 mi away/3,110 ft/130 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
SpearfishSPF
At an airfield/16.5 mi away/3,892 ft/912 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW2976FW2976
In a volunteer observer's own ground/16.5 mi away/3,962 ft/982 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Belle Fourche 0.7 ESD-BT-26
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.1 mi away/3,041 ft/61 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
NewellNWLS2
At a cooperative observer's station/13.9 mi away/2,848 ft/132 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Newell (NWLS2), 13.9 miles from here, read 30 Sep, 23:59. 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.