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Areas of Severe Thunderstorms and Excessive Rainfall Today

Scattered severe thunderstorms capable of damaging wind gusts and some hail are expected this afternoon and evening from the Upper Ohio River Valley into the Northeast, and from the Appalachians into the Mid-Atlantic States. Excessive rainfall from heavy thunderstorms may produce areas of flash flooding from southern New Mexico into the western and northern Gulf Coast into Wednesday. Read More >

Veterans Day became a federal holiday in 1938. Below is a listing of the climate records on Veterans Day for Rapid City, Gillette, Lead, Winner, Lemmon, Sundance, Spearfish, Newcastle, Hot Springs, and Custer, as well as the weather in downtown Rapid City and Gillette on the past 10 Veterans Days. Average high temperatures are generally in the 40s, while record highs have reached the upper 60s and 70s. Record lows have been in the single digits to teens below zero.

Veterans Day in 2023 was one of the warmest in the last decade, with highs generally in the 50s.