Cherry Creek, South Dakota Weather
Cherry Creek, South Dakota — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Cherry Creek, Ziebach County.
Full aviation weather for Cherry Creek is published on the Philip Airport (KPHP) page, 62 km away. It carries the current METAR decoded into plain language — surface wind, visibility, cloud layers and ceiling, temperature and dewpoint, and altimeter setting — alongside the raw observation as transmitted.
The Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF) is shown across its full validity period, with each change group broken out so you can see when conditions are expected to shift. Flight category is derived automatically — VFR, MVFR, IFR or LIFR — from reported ceiling and visibility, with runway details and field elevation alongside. Observations update roughly hourly and forecasts several times a day.
Conditions reported at KPHP describe the airfield itself. Weather 62 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Cherry Creek specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Cherry Creek.
About Cherry Creek, South Dakota
Cherry Creek unfolds across a landscape that breathes with the vastness of the western prairie, where the earth rolls in gentle, sun-baked waves toward horizons that seem to stretch into eternity. It lies 92.9 miles east-north-east of Rapid City, SD (from Rapid City, SD: bearing 66°T), and is situated 30.5 miles south-south-west of North Eagle Butte. The land here is a study in muted tones – ochre grasses that whisper secrets on the wind, punctuated by the deeper greens of hardy shrubs clinging to the low, rounded hills. The sky above is a dominion unto itself, a canvas that shifts from the pale, washed-out blues of midday to the fiery, bruised purples and oranges of sunset, painting the open country with an ephemeral glow. Cottonwood trees, their leaves a vibrant, shivering emerald, cluster near the intermittent flow of the creek itself, offering scarce but welcome shade, their branches etching stark silhouettes against the immense sky. This is a place where the echoes of an earlier era still resonate, a land shaped by the resilience of those who sought a life on the open plains. The economy of Cherry Creek, like much of Ziebach County, is deeply tied to the earth, with ranching and agriculture forming the backbone of its sustenance, the cattle grazing on the expansive pastures a familiar sight against the undulating terrain. History here is not confined to museums but lives in the weathered barns and the quiet fortitude of the people. You can feel it in the air, a stillness that carries the weight of generations, a subtle testament to the enduring spirit of those who have made their lives in this corner of South Dakota, under its boundless sky.
Live animated radar for Cherry Creek and surroundings — RainViewer.
NOAA GOES-16 GEOCOLOR — live animated loop updated every 10 minutes. Shows cloud cover, storm systems and weather patterns across the continental US.
Source: NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East · Public domain · Auto-updates on page reload
| Location | Cherry Creek, Ziebach County, South Dakota |
| Coordinates | 44.60554°N, 101.49987°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 57622 |
| Area Code | 605 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Cherry Creek, South Dakota Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Cherry Creek, South Dakota, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. Aviation weather — live METAR observations and TAF forecasts — is published separately on the pages for the nearest reporting airports, linked from the aviation section above. Additional sections may include tide predictions, wave height, wave direction and sea-surface temperature, a barometric pressure trend, and a solunar-based fishing forecast with a fishing-conditions rating for coastal localities, and soil temperature, crop weather and live USGS river gauge data for agricultural areas near a monitored waterway. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Cherry Creek includes coordinates 44.605540°N, 101.499870°W, situated in Ziebach County. ZIP code 57622. Telephone area code: 605. Timezone: Mountain Time (America/Denver).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. River and stream data is sourced from the USGS National Water Information System. Tide predictions are sourced from NOAA CO-OPS; marine and solunar data are modeled from Open-Meteo and public sunrise/moon calculations and should be treated as a general guide alongside on-the-water conditions. Radar is provided by RainViewer. Satellite imagery is sourced from NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East and is public domain.
