Washburn ESS US-83ND026
Beside a road/6.1 mi away/1,869 ft/212 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Parks/North Dakota/Cross Ranch State Park
Cross Ranch State Park, North Dakota
State Park in Oliver County, North Dakota* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 27. * WHERE...Western and much of central North Dakota. * WHEN...Until 8 AM CDT /7 AM MDT/ this morning. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
Take steps now to protect sensitive outdoor plants from the cold.
38°
50°/30°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 30°·Moderate breeze 14 mph NNW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Cross Ranch State Park until 8 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 23 degrees warmer: a high of 73° after 50° today.
Now. Cross Ranch State Park is 38° and mostly cloudy at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 30°. The dew point is 35°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 14 mph, gusting to 25 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 49° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 37° 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 73°, and the coolest Sunday, near 63°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:55 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:28 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 53 minutes long, 4 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
19Air quality
89%Humidity
80%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
38feels30
14mph
Today
Oct 16
5030
15mph
Sat
Oct 17
7335
13mph
Sun
Oct 18
6344
12mph
Mon
Oct 19
6334
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6738
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
6744
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
6743
overcast
38°
50°30°
73°35°
63°44°
63°34°
67°38°
67°44°
67°43°
As of 2:00 AM in Cross Ranch State Park, North Dakota.
Air quality
The air at Cross Ranch State Park
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Bismarck (ND), 29 miles off.
19Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)6Good20.7 mi
- Ozone19Good18 ppb20.7 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)3Good-
- Nitrogen dioxide0Good0 ppb20.7 mi
- Sulfur dioxide0Good0 ppb20.7 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 17, good.
GoodModerate
- 17YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Cross Ranch State Park
0.04 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.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.04in
- Last 3 days
- 0.04in
Visibility
How far you can see at Cross Ranch State Park, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 6 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 0.93 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,657 ft
- County
- Oliver County
- State
- North Dakota
- Latitude
- 47.2222° N
- Longitude
- 100.9879° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Cross Ranch State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station DW6873DW6873
In a volunteer observer's own ground/23.3 mi away/2,163 ft/506 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
HazenHZE
At an airfield/28.2 mi away/1,811 ft/154 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Mandan #1S2020
At a soil climate station/31.6 mi away/1,930 ft/273 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
WashburnWASN8
At a cooperative observer's station/4.5 mi away/1,732 ft/75 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Baldwin 2.2 SWND-BH-14
In a volunteer observer's own ground/18.1 mi away/2,053 ft/396 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
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The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.