Mountain Plains, South Dakota Weather
Mountain Plains, South Dakota — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Mountain Plains, Lawrence County.
Full aviation weather for Mountain Plains is published on the Black Hills Airport-Clyde Ice Field (KSPF) page, 7 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. 4 airfields within reach of Mountain Plains have their own pages, listed below.
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.
Other airports near Mountain Plains: Belle Fourche Municipal Airport (KEFC) 30 km · Sturgis Municipal Airport (K49B) 39 km · Hulett Municipal Airport (KW43) 60 km
Conditions reported at KSPF describe the airfield itself. Weather 7 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Mountain Plains specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Mountain Plains.
About Mountain Plains, South Dakota
Mountain Plains unfurls across a landscape of broad, sweeping vistas, where the earth rolls in gentle, ochre-toned swells beneath an immense expanse of sky. It lies 41.3 miles north-west of Rapid City, SD (from Rapid City, SD: bearing 311°T), and is situated 1.5 miles south of Spearfish. The air here carries a dry, clean scent, tinged with the faint perfume of sun-baked grasses and the distant, resinous breath of juniper. Scattered homesteads, weathered by wind and sun, punctuate the wide-open spaces, their corrugated tin roofs catching the light like scattered coins. In the twilight, a soft, luminous haze often settles over the land, blurring the sharp edges of the horizon and lending a dreamlike quality to the vast, unbroken quiet. The history of Mountain Plains is etched into its very character, a story of resilience born from the land's stark beauty and the hardy souls who sought to make their living here. Ranching has long been the lifeblood of Mountain Plains, the cattle grazing on these very pastures a quiet testament to generations of stewardship. Occasionally, the earth yields reminders of an older past, arrowheads or fragments of pottery hinting at peoples who once traversed these same plains. The local economy, though modest, remains tethered to the agricultural rhythms of the region, with a few small businesses serving the needs of the ranching families and the occasional traveler drawn by the sheer, unadorned grandeur of the South Dakota high plains.
Live animated radar for Mountain Plains 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 | Mountain Plains, Lawrence County, South Dakota |
| Coordinates | 44.468923°N, 103.864764°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 57783 |
| Area Code | 605 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Mountain Plains, South Dakota Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Mountain Plains, 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 Mountain Plains includes coordinates 44.468923°N, 103.864764°W, situated in Lawrence County. ZIP code 57783. 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.
