Temperature
48 F at 12 PM; 48 F at its warmest, 12 PM, and 27 F at its coolest, 7 AM.
- Now
- 48F
- 12 PM
- Highest
- 48F
- 12 PM
- Lowest
- 27F
- 7 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/North Dakota/Minot Air Force Base
Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota
Medium airport in Ward County, North Dakota47°
54°/27°
Clear·
Feels like 42°·Gentle breeze 11 mph SW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 16 degrees warmer: a high of 70° after 54° today.
Now. Minot Air Force Base is 47° and clear at 1 PM. With the wind it feels like 42°. The dew point is 31°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the southwest at 11 mph, gusting to 21 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 51° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 39° by 6 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 70°, and the coolest Sunday, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Monday morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:55 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:23 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 50 minutes long, 4 minutes shorter than yesterday.
3UV Moderate
-Air quality
58%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
1:00 PM
47feels42
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
5427
16mph
Sat
Oct 17
7038
15mph
Sun
Oct 18
5946
14mph
Mon
Oct 19
6034
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6438
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
6143
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
6339
11%
47°
54°27°
70°38°
59°46°
60°34°
64°38°
61°43°
63°39°
As of 1:00 PM in Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Minot Air Force Base
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 PM. 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 Minot Air Force Base, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 7 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- MIB
- ICAO
- KMIB
- IATA
- MIB
- Field elevation
- 1,667 ft
- Serves
- Minot
- Kind
- Medium airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- MIB
- Wind now
- From 240° at 10 mph, read 16 Oct, 12:55
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 / 29 | 13,197 ft | 300 ft | Concrete | 125° / 305° | 4 mph head, on 29 | 9 mph from the left |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Minot_AFB (MIB), Minot Air Force Base's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 34 F, the air 58% saturated; the humidity ran from 58% at 12 PM to 92% at 5 AM.
- Dew point now
- 34F
- 12 PM
- Humidity now
- 58%
- Humidity, range
- 58 to 92%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
10 mph from the west southwest at 12 PM; at its strongest 32 mph, 3 PM Thursday, with a gust of 43 mph at 2 PM Thursday.
- Now
- 10mph
- from the west southwest
- Strongest
- 32mph
- 3 PM Thursday
- Highest gust
- 43mph
- 2 PM Thursday
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.56 inHg at 12 PM, falling 0.06 inHg over 3 hours; 0.38 inHg higher than a day before.
- Now
- 30.56inHg
- 12 PM
- 3 hours
- -0.06inHg
- falling
- 24 hours
- +0.38inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 6 miles at 12 AM; 10 miles or more now.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 6mi
- 12 AM
- Hours under a mile
- 0
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
Cloud base
The lowest cloud base came down to 1,300 ft at 7 PM Thursday; a base was reported in 14 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- -
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 1,300ft
- 7 PM Thursday
- Hours with a base reported
- 14
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
Precipitation
0.03 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.03 in, in the hour to 8 PM Thursday.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.03in
- Wettest hour
- 0.03in
- 8 PM Thursday
- Hours with some
- 7
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Minot_AFB: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Minot Air Force Base, 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
Minot_AFBMIB
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/1,667 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
J. Clark SalyerJCSN8
At a river or reservoir gauge/31.9 mi away/1,434 ft/233 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Westhope ND-5ND041
Beside a road/32.1 mi away/1,493 ft/174 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Minot 4.5 NWND-WR-9
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.2 mi away/1,797 ft/130 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
FoxholmFHMN8
At a cooperative observer's station/10.1 mi away/1,677 ft/10 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in North Dakota
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Minot Air Force Base
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
Airports near Minot Air Force Base
- Minot International AirportMOT, 11 mi
- Stanley Municipal Airport08D, 49 mi
- Bottineau Municipal AirportD09, 52 mi
- Rugby Municipal AirportRUG, 61 mi
- Tioga Municipal AirportD60, 71 mi
- Mercer County Regional AirportHZE, 78 mi
- Harvey Municipal Airport5H4, 79 mi
- Rolla Municipal Airport06D, 86 mi