Hampden RAWSHMDN8
A remote fire weather station/7.8 mi away/1,555 ft/26 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/North Dakota/Alsen
Freeze Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Alsen until 9 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. Tomorrow is 8 degrees cooler: a high of 45° after 53° today.
Now. Alsen is 39° and mostly cloudy at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 28°. The dew point is 35°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Strong breeze from the north at 26 mph, gusting to 40 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 31° by 8 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 Wednesday, near 64°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 45°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 25 mph. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% 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 52 minutes long, 4 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Alsen, North Dakota.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
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The 6 instruments nearest Alsen, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Hampden RAWSHMDN8
A remote fire weather station/7.8 mi away/1,555 ft/26 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Clyde ND-5ND042
Beside a road/15.2 mi away/1,627 ft/46 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
LangdonD55
At an airfield/16.7 mi away/1,608 ft/27 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station EW3711EW3711
In a volunteer observer's own ground/17.4 mi away/1,593 ft/12 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Langdon 1.4 ESEND-CV-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/18.9 mi away/1,641 ft/60 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Experimental FarmLNGN8
On a farm or research station/19.0 mi away/1,627 ft/46 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 16.7 mi from Alsen, North Dakota. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 1,700 ft, broken at 2,400 ft, overcast at 3,900 ft; the ceiling is 2,400 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
41.0 F with a dew point of 41.0 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,700 ft.
From the north (360 degrees) at 30 mph, gusting 41 mph: force 6, a strong breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 41 mph.
The full report of Langdon, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Experimental Farm (LNGN8), 19.0 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.