GarrisonN60
At an airfield/9.5 mi away/1,926 ft/49 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Parks/North Dakota/Lake Sakakawea State Park
Lake Sakakawea State Park, North Dakota
State Park in Mercer County, North DakotaFreeze Warning, in full · Every severe alert
* WHAT...For the Wind Advisory, northwest winds 30 mph with gusts up to 45 mph. For the Freeze Warning, sub-freezing temperatures as low as 25 expected. * WHERE...Southwest and parts of central North Dakota. * WHEN...For the Wind Advisory, until midnight CDT /11 PM MDT/ tonight. For the Freeze Warning, from 1 AM CDT /midnight MDT/ to 8 AM CDT /7 AM MDT/ Friday. * IMPACTS...Objects left unsecured outside may be blown around. Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops and other sensitive vegetation.
Winds this strong can make driving difficult, especially for high profile vehicles. Use extra caution. Take steps now to protect sensitive outdoor plants from the cold.
40°
51°/36°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 29°·Fresh breeze 22 mph NNW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Lake Sakakawea State Park until 8 AM tomorrow. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Lake Sakakawea State Park is 40° and mostly cloudy at 9 PM. With the wind it feels like 29°. The dew point is 37°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northwest at 22 mph, gusting to 40 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 29° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Saturday, near 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 50°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 28°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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.
0UV Low
19Air quality
92%Humidity
69%Cloud
Now
9:00 PM
40feels29
22mph
Today
Oct 15
5136
24%
31mph
Fri
Oct 16
5028
17mph
Sat
Oct 17
7135
12mph
Sun
Oct 18
6145
12mph
Mon
Oct 19
6134
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6537
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
6543
overcast
40°
51°36°
50°28°
71°35°
61°45°
61°34°
65°37°
65°43°
As of 9:00 PM in Lake Sakakawea State Park, North Dakota.
Air quality
The air at Lake Sakakawea State Park
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Beulah (ND), 21 miles off.
19Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)12Good21.1 mi
- Ozone19Good19 ppb21.1 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)10Good21.1 mi
- Nitrogen dioxide0Good0 ppb21.1 mi
- Sulfur dioxide1Good1 ppb21.1 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 18, good.
GoodModerate
- 18YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Lake Sakakawea State Park
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 8 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 Lake Sakakawea State Park, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 9 miles Thu 11 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 1.02 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,877 ft
- County
- Mercer County
- State
- North Dakota
- Latitude
- 47.5087° N
- Longitude
- 101.4406° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Lake Sakakawea State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.3 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Coleharbor US 83 MP 151.6ND021
Beside a road/10.2 mi away/1,907 ft/30 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station DW6873DW6873
In a volunteer observer's own ground/28.2 mi away/2,163 ft/286 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
RiverdaleRIVN8
At a cooperative observer's station/4.3 mi away/1,962 ft/85 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Garrison 2.1 SSWND-ML-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.1 mi away/1,902 ft/25 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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