Temperature
39 F at 3 AM; 48 F at its warmest, 10 AM Thursday, and 39 F at its coolest, 3 AM.
- Now
- 39F
- 3 AM
- Highest
- 48F
- 10 AM Thursday
- Lowest
- 39F
- 3 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/North Dakota/Cooperstown Municipal Airport
Coming up. Tomorrow is 15 degrees warmer: a high of 65° after 50° today.
Now. Cooperstown Municipal Airport is 39° and mostly cloudy at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 29°. The dew point is 35°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north at 23 mph, gusting to 36 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 49° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 38° by 3 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 67°, 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 6:43 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:15 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 52 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Cooperstown Municipal Airport, North Dakota.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Fargo (ND), 68 miles off.
Yesterday measured 19, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.02 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 / 31 | 3,500 ft | 60 ft | Asphalt | 134° / 314° | 22 mph head, on 31 | 6 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Rands (S32), Cooperstown Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
39 F at 3 AM; 48 F at its warmest, 10 AM Thursday, and 39 F at its coolest, 3 AM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 39 F, the air 100% saturated; the humidity ran from 64% at 12 PM Thursday to 100% at 4 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
24 mph from the north northwest at 3 AM; at its strongest 32 mph, 11 AM Thursday, with a gust of 44 mph at 10 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.51 inHg at 3 AM, rising 0.20 inHg over 3 hours; 0.44 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 1 miles at 5 PM Thursday; 10 miles or more 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
Rands: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Cooperstown 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 now3 instruments
RandsS32
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/1,424 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Glenfield ESS ND-200ND030
Beside a road/20.9 mi away/1,483 ft/59 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Arrowwood 2AWWN8
At a river or reservoir gauge/37.2 mi away/1,532 ft/108 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Cooperstown 0.4 WNWND-GG-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.1 mi away/1,437 ft/13 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Courtenay 1 NWCOUN8
At a cooperative observer's station/25.5 mi away/1,512 ft/88 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.