Airports/North Dakota/Watford City Municipal Airport
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Watford City Municipal Airport until 8 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 18 degrees warmer: a high of 72° after 54° today.
Now. Watford City Municipal Airport is 39° and overcast at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 32°. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 52° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 41° by 7 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 72°, and the coolest Sunday, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Monday morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:03 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:35 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 51 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Watford City Municipal Airport, North Dakota.
Air quality
Index 25, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Theodore Roosevelt National Park (ND), 60 miles off.
Yesterday measured 19, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 6 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 / 30 | 6,550 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 134° / 314° | 13 mph head, on 30 | 6 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Watford (S25), Watford City Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
41 F at 10 PM Thursday; 45 F at its warmest, 5 AM Thursday, and 40 F at its coolest, 6 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 36 F, the air 81% saturated; the humidity ran from 70% at 8 AM Thursday to 98% at 3 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
17 mph from the north northwest at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 30 mph, 3 PM Thursday, with a gust of 45 mph at 1 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.65 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, rising 0.10 inHg over 3 hours; 0.53 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 8 miles at 1 PM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 2,000 ft at 2 PM Thursday; a base was reported in 21 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
Watford: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Watford City Municipal Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
WatfordS25
At an airfield/0.1 mi away/2,106 ft/5 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Watford CityWCYN8
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.9 mi away/2,071 ft/40 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Arnegard US-85ND048
Beside a road/11.0 mi away/2,303 ft/192 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Watford CityWTDN8
At a cooperative observer's station/1.4 mi away/2,106 ft/5 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Watford City 1.1 WNWND-MK-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.0 mi away/2,175 ft/64 ft above 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.