Tulare, South Dakota Weather
Tulare, South Dakota — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Tulare, Spink County.
Full aviation weather for Tulare is published on the Miller Municipal Airport (KMKA) page, 43 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. 2 airfields within reach of Tulare 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 Tulare: Huron Regional Airport (KHON) 45 km
Conditions reported at KMKA describe the airfield itself. Weather 43 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Tulare specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Tulare.
About Tulare, South Dakota
Tulare, a quiet presence on the South Dakota prairie, unfurls under a sky that feels impossibly vast. It lies 50.2 miles south of Aberdeen, SD (from Aberdeen, SD: bearing 181°T), and is situated 9.5 miles south of Redfield. The land here is a study in subtle gradients, a rolling expanse of cultivated fields and shortgrass prairie that stretches to horizons that seem to breathe with the shifting light. Wind, a constant companion, whispers through the stalks of corn and sorghum, carrying the scent of dry earth and the distant hum of farm machinery. The air itself has a clean, elemental quality, particularly in the early morning when a pearly mist can cling low to the ground, softening the edges of the world before the sun burns it away. Evenings bring a deepening of the blue, a slow fade of daylight that paints the western sky in hues of rose and lavender, a gentle spectacle that marks the end of another day in this open country. This particular patch of Spink County has long been tied to the fortunes of the land, its history shaped by homesteaders who sought a life in the fertile, yet often unforgiving, soil. The local economy, like so many places in this region, is deeply rooted in agriculture, with wheat, corn, and soybeans forming the backbone of its prosperity. While not a place of grand monuments, Tulare holds a certain distinctiveness in its enduring spirit, a resilience born of generations who learned to read the sky and coax abundance from the earth. The rhythm of life here is measured by the planting and harvesting seasons, a predictable ebb and flow that has sustained this community for decades, a quiet testament to the enduring power of the land and the people who tend it.
Live animated radar for Tulare 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 | Tulare, Spink County, South Dakota |
| Coordinates | 44.738034°N, 98.509818°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 57476 |
| Area Code | 605 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Tulare, South Dakota Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Tulare, 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 Tulare includes coordinates 44.738034°N, 98.509818°W, situated in Spink County. ZIP code 57476. Telephone area code: 605. Timezone: Central Time (America/Chicago).
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.
