Rapid City, SD Weather Information 
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RAPID CITY weather conditions and forecast. Click here for our location.

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Surface Data

South Dakota Road Report 

U.S. Surface Map from UNISYS

National radar image from Intellicast

Regional radar summary from Intellicast

Rapid City NEXRAD radar data from Intellicast

U.S. Map of Maximum Temperatures from UNISYS

U.S. Map of Minimum Temperatures from UNISYS

U.S. Map of 24hr Precipitation Amounts from UNISYS

U.S. Map of snow cover from UNISYS

Upper Air Data

SkewT Plot of Rapid City's latest Upper Air Data

U.S. Upper Air Map at 200 mb [about 40,000 ft] from UNISYS

U.S. Upper Air Map at 300 mb [about 30,000 ft] from UNISYS

U.S. Upper Air Map at 500 mb [about 20,000 ft] from UNISYS

U.S. Upper Air Map at 700 mb [about 10,000 ft] from UNISYS

U.S. Upper Air Map at 850 mb [about 5,000 ft] from UNISYS

Satellite Images

GOES-8 Infrared Image (huge)

GOES-8 Visible Image (huge)

GOES-8 Water Vapor Image (huge)

Visit the University of  Wyoming satellite image page to choose from other GOES images. 

Forecasts

Nowcast for Rapid City or the United States

KNBN Newscenter 1 Weather

KOTA Rapid City Weather Forecast

KEVN Black Hills FOX Weather

Outlook Maps, Graphs, and Tables  from the NOAA Climate Prediction Center

Climatology Information

Rapid City NWS maintains local climatic information. Dr. Dennis Todey, state climatologist at SDSU maintains South Dakota's Climate and Weather information: state climatic information.

The University of Utah's Web site has tables of monthly climatic data for about 290 cities in the United States.

Normal Daily Maximum Temperatures

Normal Daily Minimum Temperatures

Normal Monthly Precipitation

Average Days of Precipitation, 0.01 Inches or more

Average Snowfall

Average Percent Possible Sunshine

Local Archives - Past weather history 

The National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) maintains the world's largest active archive of weather data. NCDC has many products available if you are looking for past weather data; some is provided without cost, other information may be obtained at a minimal cost. Visit their website at http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov. By searching through their "products" listings, and answering a few simple queries, you can find records of historical events and weather conditions for many locations.

You can also visit http://www.wunderground.com/forecasts/RAP.html (the site connected to the weather box located on our main page). Under the Current Conditions box, you will find the "Historical Conditions" box allowing you to view the weather details for the past five years on any given day up to the current one! 

For upper air radiosonde information from the past two years to the current date, please visit http://raob.fsl.noaa.gov/ .

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