Temperature
41 F at 9 PM; 55 F at its warmest, 3 PM, and 27 F at its coolest, 7 AM.
- Now
- 41F
- 9 PM
- Highest
- 55F
- 3 PM
- Lowest
- 27F
- 7 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/North Dakota/Hettinger Municipal Airport
Coming up. Tomorrow is 20 degrees warmer: a high of 75° after 55° today.
Now. Hettinger Municipal Airport is 39° and clear at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 33°. The dew point is 25°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the south at 10 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 33° by 3 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 tomorrow, near 75°, and the coolest Monday, near 62°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 35% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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 10:00 PM in Hettinger Municipal Airport, North Dakota.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.09 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 6 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 / 30 | 4,652 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 137° / 317° | 7 mph head, on 12 | 3 mph from the right |
| 17 / 35 unlit | 2,020 ft | 110 ft | Grass | 179° / 359° | 8 mph head, on 17 | 3 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Hettinger (HEI), Hettinger Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
41 F at 9 PM; 55 F at its warmest, 3 PM, and 27 F at its coolest, 7 AM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 25 F, the air 53% saturated; the humidity ran from 27% at 3 PM to 100% at 6 AM.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
7 mph from the south at 10 PM; at its strongest 20 mph, 12 AM, with a gust of 31 mph at 11 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.28 inHg at 10 PM, falling 0.07 inHg over 3 hours; 0.35 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
10 miles or more every hour.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 2,000 ft at 1 AM; a base was reported in 9 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
Hettinger: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest Hettinger Municipal 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 now2 instruments
HettingerHEI
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/2,717 ft/12 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Bowman US-85ND034
Beside a road/36.7 mi away/2,933 ft/228 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Exp StationHETN8
At a cooperative observer's station/1.1 mi away/2,657 ft/48 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Mott 1.4 SSEND-HT-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/28.9 mi away/2,405 ft/300 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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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.