Airports/North Dakota/Gwinner Roger Melroe Field
Coming up. Tomorrow is 13 degrees warmer: a high of 61° after 48° today.
Now. Gwinner Roger Melroe Field is 41° and mostly cloudy at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 30°. The dew point is 37°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Strong breeze from the north at 27 mph, gusting to 40 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 46° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° by 9 PM, 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 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 61°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 26 mph. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:43 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:20 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 Gwinner Roger Melroe Field, North Dakota.
Air quality
Index 16, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Fargo (ND), 62 miles off.
Yesterday measured 19, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.09 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 7 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06 / 24 unlit | 2,991 ft | 100 ft | Grass | 62° / 242° | 3 mph head, on 06 | 25 mph from the left |
| 16 / 34 | 5,000 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 164° / 344° | 25 mph head, on 34 | 2 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Gwinner (GWR), Gwinner Roger Melroe Field's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
45 F at 10 PM Thursday; 54 F at its warmest, 12 PM Thursday, and 45 F at its coolest, 4 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 45 F, the air 100% saturated; the humidity ran from 50% at 1 PM Thursday to 100% at 3 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
23 mph from the north at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 32 mph, 2 PM Thursday, with a gust of 43 mph at 4 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.23 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, rising 0.09 inHg over 3 hours; 0.10 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 3 miles at 9 PM Thursday; 4 miles now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Gwinner: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Gwinner Roger Melroe Field, 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 now3 instruments
GwinnerGWR
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/1,263 ft/3 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Sheyenne National GrasslandsSNGN8
At a river or reservoir gauge/23.1 mi away/1,060 ft/206 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Verona ND-13ND037
Beside a road/23.2 mi away/1,388 ft/122 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Milnor 1.8 NNWND-RS-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.2 mi away/1,110 ft/156 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
FormanFRMN8
At a cooperative observer's station/13.0 mi away/1,237 ft/29 ft below 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.