Airports/North Dakota/Linton Municipal Airport
Coming up. Tomorrow is 17 degrees warmer: a high of 65° after 48° today.
Now. Linton Municipal Airport is 39° and overcast at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 29°. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northwest at 23 mph, gusting to 36 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 46° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 35° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 69°, and the coolest Monday, near 62°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:53 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:30 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 55 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Linton Municipal Airport, North Dakota.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Bismarck (ND), 49 miles off.
Yesterday measured 17, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.03 in in the last 24 hours, 0.06 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09 / 27 | 3,700 ft | 60 ft | Asphalt | 106° / 286° | 13 mph head, on 27 | 13 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Linton (7L2), Linton Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
43 F at 10 PM Thursday; 48 F at its warmest, 1 PM Thursday, and 41 F at its coolest, 6 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 37 F, the air 79% saturated; the humidity ran from 57% at 12 PM Thursday to 100% at 3 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
25 mph from the north northwest at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 36 mph, 2 PM Thursday, with a gust of 45 mph at 2 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.45 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, rising 0.12 inHg over 3 hours; 0.31 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 5 miles at 3 AM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 1,700 ft at 8 PM Thursday; a base was reported in 17 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Linton: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Linton Municipal Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Linton7L2
At an airfield/0.2 mi away/1,775 ft/4 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Fort Yates ND-1806ND046
Beside a road/19.3 mi away/1,923 ft/144 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Moffit 3 SE [CCOOP]MFTN8
At a river or reservoir gauge/31.2 mi away/1,798 ft/19 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Strasburg 3.3 SSWND-EM-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.6 mi away/1,822 ft/43 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
HazeltonHZTN8
At a cooperative observer's station/18.4 mi away/1,975 ft/196 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.