Temperature
22 F at 3 AM; 44 F at its warmest, 4 AM Thursday, and 22 F at its coolest, 3 AM.
- Now
- 22F
- 3 AM
- Highest
- 44F
- 4 AM Thursday
- Lowest
- 22F
- 3 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/North Dakota/Beach Airport
Beach Airport, North Dakota
Small airport in Golden Valley County, North Dakota* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 27. * WHERE...Western and much of central North Dakota. * WHEN...Until 8 AM CDT /7 AM MDT/ this morning. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
Take steps now to protect sensitive outdoor plants from the cold.
25°
59°/24°
Clear·
Feels like 20°·Light breeze 4 mph WNW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Beach Airport until 7 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 15 degrees warmer: a high of 74° after 59° today.
Now. Beach Airport is 25° and clear at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 20°. The dew point is 29°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the west-northwest at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 58° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 45° by 2 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 74°, and the coolest Sunday, near 63°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:07 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 9:42 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The Orionids meteor shower is active, peaking around Oct 21: at its peak, up to about 20 meteors an hour can be seen from a dark site. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 10 hours 53 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
22Air quality
100%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
3:00 AM
25feels20
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
5924
17mph
Sat
Oct 17
7443
18mph
Sun
Oct 18
6346
mostly clear day
Mon
Oct 19
6640
16mph
Tue
Oct 20
7042
13mph
Wed
Oct 21
6744
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 22
7043
12mph
25°
59°24°
74°43°
63°46°
66°40°
70°42°
67°44°
70°43°
As of 3:00 AM in Beach Airport, North Dakota.
Air quality
The air at Beach Airport
Index 22, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Theodore Roosevelt National Park (ND), 22 miles off.
22Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)3Good-
- Ozone22Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 6, good.
GoodModerate
- 6YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 12 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Beach Airport
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Beach Airport, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sun 12 AM, lowest 8 miles Fri 5 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- 20U
- ICAO
- -
- IATA
- -
- Field elevation
- 2,756 ft
- Serves
- Beach
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- 20U
- Wind now
- From 150° at 5 mph, read 16 Oct, 03:15
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 / 30 | 4,200 ft | 60 ft | Asphalt | 134° / 314° | 5 mph head, on 12 | 1 mph from the right |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Beach Beach (20U), Beach Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 22 F, the air 100% saturated; the humidity ran from 61% at 5 PM Thursday to 100% at 1 AM.
- Dew point now
- 22F
- 3 AM
- Humidity now
- 100%
- Humidity, range
- 61 to 100%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
6 mph from the southwest at 3 AM; at its strongest 33 mph, 3 PM Thursday, with a gust of 53 mph at 2 PM Thursday.
- Now
- 6mph
- from the southwest
- Strongest
- 33mph
- 3 PM Thursday
- Highest gust
- 53mph
- 2 PM Thursday
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.71 inHg at 3 AM, rising 0.04 inHg over 3 hours; 0.44 inHg higher than a day before.
- Now
- 30.71inHg
- 3 AM
- 3 hours
- +0.04inHg
- rising
- 24 hours
- +0.44inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Precipitation
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Wettest hour
- -
- Hours with some
- 0
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Beach Beach: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Beach Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Beach Beach20U
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/2,756 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Medora I-94ND036
Beside a road/20.0 mi away/2,293 ft/463 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Medora 7EMRAN8
At a river or reservoir gauge/28.6 mi away/2,654 ft/102 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Medora 7 E94080
At a climate reference station/29.0 mi away/2,771 ft/15 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Beach 0.3 SSEND-GV-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.5 mi away/2,803 ft/47 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
MedoraMDAN8
At a cooperative observer's station/22.0 mi away/2,516 ft/240 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Medora (MDAN8), 22.0 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in North Dakota
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
BismarckcityBottineaucityBottineau Winter Parkski areaDevils LakecityDickinsoncityFargocityFrost Fireski areaGraftoncityGrand ForkscityJamestowncityLake SakakaweafeatureMandancityMinotcityRugbycitySheyenne National GrasslandfeatureTheodore Roosevelt National ParkfeatureTurtle MountainfeatureValley CitycityWahpetoncityWatford CitycityWillistoncity
Near Beach Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Beachcity, 1 mi
- Sentinel Buttecity, 7 mi
- Golvacity, 13 mi
- Medoracity, 22 mi
- Theodore Roosevelt National Parkfeature, 24 mi
- Belfieldcity, 37 mi
- Amidoncity, 44 mi
- Marmarthcity, 44 mi
- South Heartcity, 47 mi
- Rhamecity, 50 mi
- Dickinsoncity, 56 mi
- Bowmancity, 58 mi
Airports near Beach Airport
- Dickinson Theodore Roosevelt Regional AirportDIK, 56 mi
- Bowman Regional AirportBWW, 62 mi
- Weydahl Field9Y1, 65 mi
- Watford City Municipal AirportS25, 69 mi
- Hettinger Municipal AirportHEI, 89 mi
- Williston Basin International AirportXWA, 93 mi
- Glen Ullin Regional AirportD57, 101 mi
- Tioga Municipal AirportD60, 112 mi